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elektor··on Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial
Living in the Northeast, I’m tempted to enroll. Anyone know what the previous trial adverse events were?
elektor··on Whole Genome Sequencing
I've done both Sequencing.com and All of US WGS so I can chime in here. Sequencing.com had a pretty quick turnaround whereas Im still waiting for the All of Us results, so far they've only given me very generic results like if I like cilantro. That said, Sequencing.com was $349 and All of Us was free, they even gave me a gift card for donating my DNA + urine sample.
elektor··on Countries with Declining Population 2022
Source for this article is United Nations 2019, which already makes it woefully out date due to COVID excess deaths and the invasion of Ukraine.

For anyone interested, here is the 2022 report: https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...

elektor··on $9.99/month
It was the excessive knockoffs that got us to quit our Prime too. Nowadays, I forego the 2 day "free" shipping for peace of mind that the product I get is straight from the vendor and the price difference is negligible.
elektor··on Is the Ride over for Uber?
How come? Fewer markets?
elektor··on Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?
+1 for Mubert. I feel like they've neutered their website but their iOS app is easy to use.
elektor··on Ask HN: How do you save web page content
I use 'save to Wayback Machine' and SingleFile.
elektor··on Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose search rankings
Not a big fan of Brave the browser but am excited to see Brave Search flourish!
elektor··on The Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1
This is a pretty neat idea.

I could see football stadiums making a killing on selling nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to local farms.

elektor··on Beanstalk Farms stablecoin project loses $182M to exploit
Another day, another collapse of a cryptocurrency.
elektor··on Ask HN: Who's sick of remote work?
The only thing I miss about being in the office is the ability to read faces. I’m a pretty anxious person and tend to read too much into short emails/Teams message, wrongly assuming someone is upset with me.
elektor··on Send your email right to the other person's spam
If you look down at the footnotes of the OP submission, that’s exactly the episode that inspired this idea.
elektor··on Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
That’s partly why I donate. If they get direct funds they’re hopefully less likely to turn to these scammy cryptocoins to keep the lights on
elektor··on Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
I use Signal on a daily basis and have started donating. It’s definitely worth the $5/month
elektor··on Ask HN: Reverse image search that finds people who look like you?
I think you may be thinking of FindFace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace

elektor··on Japanese university finds Alzheimer's drug effective in treating ALS in mice
If anyone is interested in a promising drug tested in humans and not mice, AMX0035 is under FDA review and had positive Phase II results.

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/comment/potential-fda-ap...

elektor··on Gene discoveries give new hope to people who stutter
If you can spare ~$400, Whole Genome Sequencing can offer some insight into whether your condition has some genetic cause.
elektor··on Buy Nothing groups offer an antidote to waste and isolation
I’ve used my local BN group to de clutter my home, highly recommend it!
elektor··on We will be retiring Alexa.com
I imagine today is a great day to be working at SimilarWeb. When I did SEO related research, these two were my go to for determining how popular a website was.
elektor··on NYPD preparing for slew of retirements amid vaccine mandate
COVID-19 has killed more police officers than any other on-duty cause of death. This mandate might actually save the NYPD a lot of money in healthcare/funeral costs.
elektor··on Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Delivery of All Time
Very impressive! I used to pay $8 a month for carbon removal via Climeworks, their competitor. It looks like there is a minimum of $25 a month to do the same with Charm.
elektor··on Graphreader: Extract Values from Graph Images
Your link is what I currently use, can you delve deeper into why Graphreader would save you time?
elektor··on Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
What vacuum would you recommend?
elektor··on Scite: Smart Citations for Better Research
Highly recommend Scite, I use it on a nearly daily basis when doing lit reviews for my job.
elektor··on Semantic Reader: Show Reference Abstracts in Context, and More
This is great! I can see this saving me a lot of hours of hunting down the citations.

For other people in the academic research field, I would recommend Scite(https://scite.ai) which provides similar functionality.

elektor··on Microsoft is reportedly close to buying speech tech giant Nuance
This makes me nervous, I’ve used Dragon Speaking before and would be nervous for it to be folded into a Microsoft Office-like feature.
elektor··on Experimenting on My Hearing Loss
Now this is a real hacker post! Kudos to the author.

I have some mild tinnitus and listen to hours of audiobooks a day. I could see this being a great add-on to apps like Audible or Bound.

elektor··on Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory
States keep falling for these corporate promises and waste billions of our tax dollars crafting these sweetheart deals.
elektor··on mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug?
Is this the legit link to Sci-Hub? I'm a little surprised to see Paypal allow donations.
elektor··on Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83
You can pay for Mozilla VPN to support them
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