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ycnews··on Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%
"Addition is All You Need for Energy-efficient Language Models" https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00907
ycnews··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
https://code.briarproject.org/briar
ycnews··on Non-Invasive Laser Therapy Could Improve Short-Term Memory by Up to 25 Percent
..."performance improved significantly only in active tPBM sessions applying 1064 nm but not an 852 nm."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3211

ycnews··on Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Pico Team Up for Robot Lawnmower Project
"The RTK GPS board provides both coarse GPS location data, along with a correction stream (RTK) which sharpens the accuracy from meters to centimeters.

This last component is crucial, as it allows the OpenMower to do away with the clunky perimeter wire and know precisely where it is within the lawn, supporting multiple mowing areas and moving back and forth in a regular pattern instead of randomly turning. "

ycnews··on Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ Covid origin State Dept memo says
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830530
ycnews··on Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient EV with over 1,000km of range
Commercial truck drivers yes, private individuals: not that I'm aware of (reference needed).
ycnews··on Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
re:"weekly roundup"> F# Is The Best Coding Language Today

Have you looked at http://nim-lang.org ?

ycnews··on This Month with Nim: March 2021
nimCloudflareDynDns, nimib, "Raspberry Pi Pico-sdk", "Cosmonim: an example of using Cosmopolitan Libc with Nim" and "Blog post: Amalgamating Nim programs"
ycnews··on The fastest random-number generator ever built
Previous HN link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287811
ycnews··on Apple works with China but not the FBI (2016)
2016.
ycnews··on Ceramics That Won’t Shatter
"December 4, 2008". Is there more recent info on this subject?
ycnews··on Disastrous Copyright Proposal Goes Straight to Our Naughty List
"a single, unsubstantiated claim of infringement should be enough to not only terminate a YouTube account but to terminate Internet access"
ycnews··on Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24043931 (related HN discussion over a month ago)
ycnews··on Rape case at a near mistrial due to jury's unauthorized research
“We were having a discussion about ‘access’ yesterday and some people couldn’t agree what the word’s definition truly was. So, we looked it up on a smartphone, Webster’s."...
ycnews··on Spot the Robot Dog Trots into the Big, Bad World
"the software development kit is now publicly available on GitHub." (https://github.com/boston-dynamics/spot-sdk)
ycnews··on An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream
article quote: But the clot was an uncomfortable surprise. “I think it was probably scary for everybody,” Marshall-Goebel says. “But I think the fact that we found this now is really, really good news..."
ycnews··on 3D print FFF with AFP continuous fiber tape
Will this work without ever being connected to a network?
ycnews··on Install Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi 4
https://ubuntu-mate.org/ has been available for Pi 2+3 for awhile. Not sure if it's available for Pi 4 yet. Edit: Kali linux does work fine on a Pi 4 though.
ycnews··on Hello from the Markup
> When we asked Mailchimp for an explanation, a spokesperson told us the company doesn’t turn off click-tracking until after an unspecified “probationary period” because they need to ensure “abuse prevention.”
ycnews··on M 4.4 – 0km SSW of Three Lakes, Washington 2019-07-12 09:51:36 (UTC)
Barely felt this small quake in Covington, WA 98042 but did wake up at 2:52am
ycnews··on US Air Force deploys missiles that can fry weapons with microwaves
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7037549/Air-Force-d... is the original story.
ycnews··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
Python cli version at https://github.com/ehuggett/send-cli

disclaimer: I haven't used either cli version.

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"Dissenter is designed to extend American civil liberties protections for political speech to every corner of the planet, and allows people to express themselves on any subject, at any time, on any url, in a manner which is or would be permissible under U.S. law."
ycnews··on 20,000 Satellites for 5G to Be Launched Sending Focused Beams: Intense Microwave
"Stationary equipment such as Wi-Fi hubs in homes and offices will be permitted to use microwave beams that are 15 times stronger (300 watts) than the signals from 5G phones or 150 times stronger than 4G phones."

Really? I'm a software developer, can someone help explain the above quote, given this regulation:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/30.202

ycnews··on BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
Presentation slides (pdf) from Hot Chips 2018 (tape out): http://www.hotchips.org/hc30/1conf/1.03_Berkeley_BROOM_HC30....
ycnews··on Reasons not to use Netflix
Learned of https://www.kanopy.com/ via my local library last week. I haven't used it (yet), so I don't know how useful it is.
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Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
ycnews··on Optical Communication and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) – 10.25.17
Sat. Nov. 11 launch scrubbed https://twitter.com/NASA/status/929329965090426880
ycnews··on Transition guide for users of Classic
From the guide:

  (q) How do I permanently delete messages?
  (a) ... Use the % key (normally Shift+5) to delete the selected mail instantly, forever.
My question: How do I use the above "keyboard shortcut" on Firefox for Android to permanently delete (instead of moving messages to trash and then emptying the trash)?

I'll miss classic mode (and I don't care to use the FastMail app on Android when classic mode worked fine).

ycnews··on Amazon peer-to-peer selling
Eventually https://openbazaar.org/ may be useful to you (perhaps with "Moderated Payment").
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