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headalgorithm··on Levitated timepiece sets new benchmark
Link to paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/23/eaaz9858
headalgorithm··on Metasurface Opens World of Polarization
Link to paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/23/eaba3367
headalgorithm··on Hubble makes surprising find in the early universe
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07580
headalgorithm··on A 23M-year record of low atmospheric carbon dioxide [pdf]
From abstract:

These data suggest present-day CO2 (412 ppmv) exceeds the highest levels that Earth experienced at least since the Miocene, further highlighting the present-day disruption of long-established CO2 trends within Earth’s atmosphere.

headalgorithm··on Paradox of Tolerance
See discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18963574
headalgorithm··on Benefits of social networks to disaster response questioned
Link to paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2019.068...
headalgorithm··on Sea snakes have been adapting to see underwater for 15M years
Link to paper [pdf]: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/s09609822203057...
headalgorithm··on New study reveals long-term impact of disaster-related school closures
Link to paper [pdf]: https://www.riseprogramme.org/sites/www.riseprogramme.org/fi...
headalgorithm··on Researchers find mathematical structure in biological complexity
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03714
headalgorithm··on Astronomers predict bombardment from asteroids and comets in planetary system
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13562
headalgorithm··on ‘Oumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12932
headalgorithm··on ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest star
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114v1
headalgorithm··on Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (2017)
See previous discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15611122
headalgorithm··on Study: Substantial quantities of tyre particles contaminating rivers and ocean
Link to paper: http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=14784_Final...
headalgorithm··on Ford’s Latest Tech Helps Police Vehicles Neutralize Covid-19
How it works

The solution is simple: Bake the vehicle’s interior until viruses inside are inactivated. Using Police Interceptor Utility’s own powertrain and climate control systems, this software solution enables vehicles to elevate passenger compartment temperatures beyond 133 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than Death Valley on its hottest day, for 15 minutes – long enough to help disinfect vehicle touchpoints.

headalgorithm··on Finding Cross-Lingual Syntax in Multilingual Bert
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04511
headalgorithm··on Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution
Basically there appears to be a link between the way in which societies process information and how large they can become
headalgorithm··on Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution
Abstract:

Throughout the Holocene, societies developed additional layers of administration and more information-rich instruments for managing and recording transactions and events as they grew in population and territory. Yet, while such increases seem inevitable, they are not. Here we use the Seshat database to investigate the development of hundreds of polities, from multiple continents, over thousands of years. We find that sociopolitical development is dominated first by growth in polity scale, then by improvements in information processing and economic systems, and then by further increases in scale. We thus define a Scale Threshold for societies, beyond which growth in information processing becomes paramount, and an Information Threshold, which once crossed facilitates additional growth in scale. Polities diverge in socio-political features below the Information Threshold, but reconverge beyond it. We suggest an explanation for the evolutionary divergence between Old and New World polities based on phased growth in scale and information processing. We also suggest a mechanism to help explain social collapses with no evident external causes.

headalgorithm··on [dead]
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23289939
headalgorithm··on Strangest of All: An anthology of astrobiological science fiction [pdf]
Strangest of All, developed in cooperation of the European Astrobiology Institute and scientist and editor Julie Nováková, is an anthology of astrobiology-themed science fiction stories aimed to both entertain and educate. It takes you on a journey to encounter life in the universe, as imagined in SF stories by award-winning authors, and our chances of finding it outside of the Earth, detecting it remotely, learning its limits and more in original nonfiction essays following each story. The book contains reprint science fiction stories by G. David Nordley, Geoffrey Landis, Gregory Benford, Tobias S. Buckell, Peter Watts and D. A. Xiaolin Spires, and a bonus story by the editor.

https://europeanastrobiology.eu/onewebmedia/StrangestofAll.p...

headalgorithm··on Using the ‘shadow-effect’ to generate electricity
Here's the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0EE00825G

But you need to create a free account first unfortunately.

headalgorithm··on Antarctic penguins release an extreme amount of laughing gas
Summary: "In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that penguins in Antarctica emit copious amounts of nitrous oxide via their feces. So much so, that the researchers went 'cuckoo' from being surrounded by penguin poop."
headalgorithm··on Artificial pieces of brain use light to communicate with real neurons
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63934-4
headalgorithm··on [dead]
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430
headalgorithm··on A Map of Trees in London
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078682
headalgorithm··on GitHub was down again
I understand your argument, but the number of comments on this post shows people still want to discuss it.

Is it possible to run an experiment. Remove the flag option but highlight the hide option to users. Users who are not interested in the topic can remove it from view but do not kill the discussion for those who are interested in it. Then see if the quality of posts/discussions decline.

headalgorithm··on Equifax Used 'Admin' as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit
See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315295
headalgorithm··on Imagineering in a Box
About this course:

"Have you ever wondered how theme parks come to life? Disney Imagineers from hundreds of career disciplines around the world share how they use a wide range of skills – from story development and conceptual design, to math, physics and engineering – that all come together to create immersive experiences. Imagineering in a Box allows you to explore different aspects of theme park design, from characters to ride development, as you design a theme park of your very own."

headalgorithm··on Bel is a spec for a new dialect of Lisp
See Paul's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231208
headalgorithm··on MetaEthical.ai: AI that does what we should want it to do
Read the introduction to MetaEthical.AI: https://medium.com/@june_ku/formal-metaethics-and-metasemant...
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