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Students occupy top arts university in Hungary after leadership resigns(insighthungary.444.hu)
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The CDC has failed: Ex-health officials urge states to abandon agency(arstechnica.com)
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by pabo 6y ago
Ok, I found the reference for this story [1]! It turns out I messed up some details, but the core of the story is true. (It was not a company but Alex Szalay [2] at JHU, and it was not an indexing but a layout issue.) Jim asked about our &
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by pabo 6y ago
There's an anecdote about Jim Gray: he was once asked by a company to help troubleshoot a performance issue in their database (this was in the 80s or 90s I guess). Surprisingly, he did not start by looking at any code, but went directl
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by pabo 6y ago
I can't resist posting this in response to "I want my MTV": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
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Respawn point: The inevitable reincarnation of the corporate office(arstechnica.com)
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Trucking hell: Kid leaves dad in monster debt after buying vehicle on eBay(theregister.com)
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I Built a Guitar Out of a Shelf During Lockdown [video](youtube.com)
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Quantum reality is either weirdly different or it collapses(arstechnica.com)
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by pabo 6y ago
I can't access the article, but there was a recent ransomware attack on Canon [1]. I wonder if this could be related to it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185734
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Canon USA's stolen files leaked by Maze ransomware gang(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by pabo 6y ago
It seems there's a surge in ransomware attacks, at least there are more cases in the news. See e.g. Garmin [1] or CWT [2] hacked recently. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289 [2] https://news.y
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This Is How Much a Cloud Weighs(sciencealert.com)
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by pabo 6y ago
There's a related anecdote about John von Neumann: he used to joke that he has superpowers and can easily tell truly random and pseudo random sequences apart. He asked people to sit down in another room and generate a 0/1 sequence
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Bill Gates on Covid-19: Most US tests are “completely garbage”(arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft and Samsung need each other now more than ever(theverge.com)
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Ask HN: Do You Like Debugging?
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Poverty Is a Choice(theatlantic.com)
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Hilarious Ads for Technology from the Past That Look Insanely Expensive Now(boredpanda.com)
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Getting Started with Mozilla Hubs [video](youtube.com)
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ProtonMail founder: Apple uses monopoly to “hold all of us hostage”(arstechnica.com)
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Carlson Wagonlit Travel hit by ransomware attack(theregister.com)
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A Revolutionary Development in Silicon Photonics: The Smallest Comb Generator(allaboutcircuits.com)
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Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data(theverge.com)
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Poverty Is a Choice(theatlantic.com)
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America’s Monopoly Problem Goes Way Beyond the Tech Giants(theatlantic.com)
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From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes(sciencemag.org)
28 points by pabo 6y ago|12 comments
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by pabo 6y ago
The original PNAS publication can be found at [0]. I copy here (most of) the abstract, I think it's very nicely written: "Plato envisioned Earth’s building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar system is litte
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Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation(pnas.org)
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by pabo 6y ago
ScienceMag has a post about this result [0]. From that text: "Perhaps the Cubists were right. Researchers have found that when everything from icebergs to rocks breaks apart, their pieces tend to resemble cubes. The finding suggests a

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