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Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol(uh.edu)
151 points by divbzero 1y ago|40 comments
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by divbzero 1y ago
I don’t actually see the where the dashboard claims that the average tax rate is the same as the larger population. The dashboard does say that undocumented immigrants pay > an average tax revenue rate of 29.5%, supported by various sou
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Classic rail routes through the Alps reopen(theguardian.com)
2 points by divbzero 1y ago|1 comments
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Loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon(theguardian.com)
3 points by divbzero 1y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 1y ago
Usability is a tough challenge and I especially like your clear explanations of how the calculations are done. Having tried it on iPhone, a specific UI feedback I would have is making the page scrollable even when the numpad is displayed. I
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Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban(lemonde.fr)
149 points by divbzero 1y ago|80 comments
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by divbzero 1y ago
This seems like a lot of added complexity for limited gain. Are there cases where gzip and br at their highest compression levels aren’t good enough?
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Republish Our Content Free of Charge(kffhealthnews.org)
2 points by divbzero 1y ago|0 comments
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Stranded UK F-35 jet becomes unexpected star in Indian tourism campaign(reuters.com)
3 points by divbzero 1y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 1y ago
Why is the bottom edge of the ASCII moon a black crescent? Is that a real lunar phenomenon or just a rendering artifact in my browser?
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by divbzero 1y ago
Also not possible: common representations of the star and crescent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent#Contemporary...
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by divbzero 1y ago
The Encyclopædia Britannica has about 40,000,000 words [1] or about 0.25 GB if you assume 6 bytes per word. It’s impressive but not outlandish that an 8.1 GB file could encode a large swath of human information. [1]: https://en
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by divbzero 1y ago
It was $1M back in 2007.
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by divbzero 1y ago
Linksys has offered similar functionality (“Linksys Aware”) since 2019. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905223/linksys-aware-me...
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by divbzero 1y ago
Maybe they have employees rotate through an undercover role, but more likely the store just attracts cool people.
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by divbzero 1y ago
We had the same game in high school, except for a clothing retailer. The Apple Store didn’t exist yet.
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by divbzero 1y ago
OP mentions how Facebook introduced engagement algorithms to Instagram and how Twitter followed suit, but doesn’t mention that Facebook was also the first to popularize engagement algorithms in 2011 via their News Feed. https://e
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by divbzero 1y ago
This performance by Arcade Fire at a more recent Glastonbury Festival has stuck in my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMuTthF3Gw
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JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet(smithsonianmag.com)
344 points by divbzero 1y ago|150 comments
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by divbzero 1y ago
“ in situ therapeutics”
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by divbzero 1y ago
There’s an old NOVA episode “This Old Pyramid” that applied experimental archaeology to the Egyptian pyramids: exploring how the pyramids were built by actually building one. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1460448/
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by divbzero 1y ago
He didn’t mention it in this letter, but in Surely You’re Joking Feynman described how he solved for the motion of plates spinning and wobbling across a cafeteria in Cornell. When his colleague asked what’s the importance of this problem,
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by divbzero 1y ago
This is very cool. Note that PEP 723 is also supported by pipx run : https://pipx.pypa.io/latest/examples/#pipx-run-examples
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by divbzero 1y ago
If momentum for uv in the community continues, I’d love to see it distributed more broadly. uv can already be installed easily on macOS via Homebrew (like pyenv ). uv can also be installed on Windows via WinGet (unlike pyenv ). It w
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Python Tools Are Quickly Adopting the New pylock.toml Standard(socket.dev)
1 points by divbzero 1y ago|0 comments
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16B accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history(tomshardware.com)
2 points by divbzero 1y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 1y ago
I have fiber at home and at my office, but when I’m out I appreciate sites like HN that work well on unreliable or congested cellular/Wi-Fi.
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by divbzero 1y ago
It amazes me that the same person who discovered benzene also discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday’s laws of electrolysis.
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by divbzero 1y ago
An infinite grid of resistors is clearly a toy scenario, but the infinite universe is a reality that astrophysicists try to reason about. I wonder if there are blindspots in astrophysics because we lack intuition about the universe at that
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by divbzero 1y ago
Find opportunities to say “thank you” to those who helped you, and then pass it on to the next generation.

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