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Kevin Kelly: 101 Additional Advices

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Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age.

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Label-Efficient Sleep Staging Using Transformers Pre-trained with Position Prediction

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Sleep staging is a clinically important task for diagnosing various sleep disorders but remains challenging to deploy at scale because it requires clinical expertise, among other reasons. Deep learning models can perform the task but at the expense of large labeled datasets, which are unfeasible to procure at scale. While self-supervised learning (SSL) can mitigate this need, recent studies on SSL for sleep staging have shown performance gains saturate after training with labeled data from only

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ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can't correct it

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noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

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AI Could Change DUI Terms for Future Turo Insurance Policies

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AI is helping insurance companies better deal with DUIs when writing policies.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby

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An IT glitch leaves the cabin crew expecting to welcome a baby on board rather than a centenarian.

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How to make data science projects more open and inclusive

DrivenData Labs

Data science has enormous potential to improve lives, from detecting cancer to responding to flood disaster events. However, these benefits are not felt equally. Implementing advanced machine learning methods requires training, resources, and time, making data science work subject to existing widespread inequalities based on race, gender, geography, and more.

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US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one

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Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic to the fake domains is typically similar to what the legitimate site records and it is even higher during holidays. [.

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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England

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Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing

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We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.

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Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades

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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.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage

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ERCOT and clean energy developers haven’t been able to reach consensus on how to address potential flaws that pose risks to the grid.

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Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

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See the ISS on a beautiful 3D globe, with live video

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TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

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Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.

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Scaling to Count Billions

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How we built a scalable and reliable content usage counting service.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Apple Vision Pro Successor Not Expected Until End of 2026

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A second-generation Apple Vision Pro may not arrive before end of 2026, but the company has yet to figure out a way to bring down cost

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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

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Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video]

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You probably saw recently that Microsoft and IBM released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub. This is under the MIT License, which is an open source li.

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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science

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How the past of Personal Computing gives us a hint into the future of Personal Library Science

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Google surpasses $2T market cap

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Google parent Alphabet stock is up more than 23% so far this year, and more than 59% over the last 12 months

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Did we lose our way in making efficient software? – ~30 MB doc file vs. browser

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Yesterday, my father told me he needed to install Microsoft Word on his laptop to work on his doc file.

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DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game

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Play the original Spacewar!, the classic 1960s video game on a virtual PDP-1. Emulation of the first video game ever (with accurate screen graphics) in plain HTML5.

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Tales from an Attic

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Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator

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FreeBee -- AT&T UNIX PC emulator I'm developing an emulator for the AT&T UNIX PC. Currently it can boot the 3B1 UNIX operating system and run acceptably. There are some documents and other items here which may be useful to 3B1 owners. The emulator currently boots 3B1 UNIX, and thanks to the hard efforts of many people, can run a wide variety of software (including, thanks to Jesse, the C compiler and MGR windowing system!).

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The Invention of the Integrated Circuit: Jean Hoerni's Patent Notebook

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This week marks 65 years since Jean Hoerni applied for a patent for his 'planar process' a key step towards the creation of the modern monolithic integrated circuit.

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Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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How do satellites communicate with a GPS system? (2018)

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Antennas provide the wireless linkage required for any satellite-based system. Here's a look at the many antennas of GPS.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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The unstallable plane that stalled

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The Cessna 185 Skywagon is a high wing, single engine aircraft: basically a Cessna 180 with six seats, a strengthened fuselage and a slightly more powerful engine.

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You can't just assume UTF-8

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How to infer character encodings with statistics

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The Pen, Mightier

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We care about what our words look like because we somewhere believe that this says something about who we are beyond font or scrawl.

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George Stephenson

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.