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Jevons paradox: when prices fall, total spending can rise because cheaper resources enable more usage (e.g., gas, or software builds/tests boosting CI costs). The author coins “Reverse Jevons paradox”: when costs rise, spending can fall—or drop to zero. Example: heavy review processes make small changes not worthwhile, slowing incremental improvements and harming a codebase.
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Forum discussion on Framework data breach: incident reportedly leaked some customer data, but not payment details. Members praised Framework's rapid, transparent notification—Metabase notified partners within 3 days; Framework informed customers within 6 hours of Metabase’s notice. Some questioned whether credit card info was accessed, noting payments are processed via Stripe and no payment data exposed. Debates about sharing data with third-party BI platforms and whether earlier messaging used 'limited breach' accurately. Concerns raised about phishing risks from breach emails. Overall appreciation for transparency but dissatisfaction with data-sharing practices.
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Edge shows a 'Too Many Requests' (429) error, indicating the server is rate-limiting requests.
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Atomic clocks keep time by tapping the resonant frequencies of atoms. Isolated atoms are illuminated with finely tuned light; when the light matches an atom’s resonant frequency, atoms absorb energy and undergo quantum jumps. Counting the resulting light cycles yields ticks of time. For cesium, one second is defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles. Atomic clocks are far more stable than pendulums or quartz, powering GPS, networks, finance timestamps, and scientific research. Modern clocks include beam, fountain and optical clocks.
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Divyendu details his FPV drone learning path from liftoff simulators to real flight using a tiny whoop. After ~20 hours in simulators, he started real flying with a BetaFPV Air65, Fat Shark Echo goggles, and a AI coach (agy) that helped compare gear, bind the drone, tune 5.8 GHz video, and analyze flights. Real flights remained hard but improved; AI provided feedback on controller settings and created a custom apartment map for The Zone. He envisions 1000+ hours of sim time and 1000+ real packs toward mastery.
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Security researchers showed they could stalk a WIRED reporter by hijacking a cheap GPS smartwatch for kids built on YiQingTeng’s SETracker platform. Even when GPS was off, the watch transmitted nearby Wi‑Fi network identifiers, letting them pinpoint location; they also used the watch to take photos and capture audio. The vulnerabilities span three Shenzhen-based supply chains (YiQingTeng/ Wonlex, NewGPS2012, SinoTrack), with flaws like lack of authentication and SQL injection affecting tens of millions of devices across dozens of brands. The white‑label model spreads risk, and many flaws remain unpatched.
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Faber Birren (EX’23) was a self-taught color theorist who became a leading 20th‑century consultant. From Chicago to New York, he showed how color can boost sales and safety and shape mood—advising a meat company, DuPont, the U.S. Army, and Disney on Bambi, Fantasia, and Pinocchio. He popularized ‘color at work,’ codifying practices like yellow for hazards and blue‑green hospital rooms, and authored works on color psychology and therapy. Birren argued color permeates mass psychology and well‑being, making color a central cultural and commercial force.
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Beginning in 2003, retired food-industry executive Helio da Silva planted trees on a neglected São Paulo site. Over two decades, thousands of trees across 160 species transformed the area into Tiquatira Park, a 3.2-kilometre linear urban forest. Five years in, the city officially recognised it as its first linear park, now a green corridor that hosts wildlife and cools the urban heat in a metropolis of about 12 million. Da Silva, still active at 73, funds and maintains the project from his own savings (~$7,000/year) and aims for 50,000 trees, earning the nickname “Tree Planter.”
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Estonia's 'home cafe days' turn private gardens, courtyards and garages into pop-up eateries each summer, inviting strangers to share homemade meals. About 150 events run nationwide from April to September, ranging from simple lemonade stands to tents and full outdoor restaurants. The tradition began on Hiiumaa in 2007 to draw visitors and highlights islanders' long history of hospitality; today hosts include Kehra's Heiki Kalvik and Kalamaja residents who host Ukrainian refugees' families, serving local dishes to curious visitors. The low-tech, cash-only gatherings offer a rare window into everyday Estonian life and neighbourliness.
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WSJ’s 404 page notes the requested page can’t be found and suggests checking the URL or emailing [email protected]. It also showcases popular articles (investors whose SpaceX shares vanished before cashing in; airlines pushing back against ICE enforcement at airports; Senate panel obtaining a copy of Fauci’s Covid-era phone) and highlights latest podcasts (Why AI Models Keep Hacking Other Companies; Dow Ends Winning Streak; TNB Tech Minute: SpaceX and Tesla Plan Texas Chip Plant).
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New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI Emergency Call Triage to triage and route calls, not replace, human dispatchers. The OPCD began using AI for 311 non-emergency calls in April to provide information. For 911, the AI assesses calls and can offer updates; if the call isn’t about the incident, it goes to a human dispatcher. The system aims to reduce overload from thousands of daily calls. Potential risks include biases, misrecognition of accents, reliability, and cybersecurity.
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On Common Voice data, Whisper ASR does not degrade with speaker age; older groups are transcribed as well or better than twenties (twenties 6.53% WER vs sixties 5.23%, seventies 4.67% with matched accents/genders). When using a fixed silence threshold for turn-taking, older speakers are talked over 2–2.5x more, creating a large age-related penalty in real-world agent conversations. A semantic turn model (smart-turn v3) largely closes this gap. Limitations: healthy aging, read-speech, accent confounding, and corpus-specific effects; results may not generalize to disordered speech.
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The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem says any finite noncollinear set of points in the plane has a line through exactly two of them. Kelly’s proof selects the closest point–line pair (P, l). If l passed through more than two points, two would lie on the same side of P′, and constructing a line through P and a point plus a perpendicular from the other would create a shorter distance than the minimum, a contradiction. Therefore l contains exactly two points.
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Access to medium.com is blocked by Cloudflare's security service. The block can be triggered by certain words, SQL commands, or malformed data. To resolve, the user should contact the site owner, explain what they were doing, and include the Cloudflare Ray ID shown on the page. The message also displays the user's IP and notes Cloudflare's performance and security.
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A Zenodo data-and-code archive for the preprint analyzes sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD/QSCI) on iron–sulfur clusters to test convergence to the target spin. Using a rotation-invariant spin audit (determinant-space ⟨S²⟩, invariant S²-Gram spectra, higher moments), the authors find no audited run reaches the named singlet at a competitive energy; at the largest dimension, the lowest root is ~170 mHa below the published energy but ⟨S²⟩ ≈ 1.37, far from singlet, with hardware samples offering no energy advantage. They urge including measured spin moments as benchmarks. The archive provides full data, code, and reproducibility materials (START_HERE.md, SHA hashes).
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NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) team reports the first high-resolution observation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) on the Sun's photosphere, seen as small vortex-like swirls at magnetic boundaries. Combined with simulations (MURaM) from HAO and MPS, the findings confirm KHI as a driver of magnetic energy diffusion and possibly heating the outer solar atmosphere, contributing to space weather processes. The study, published in Nature, suggests KH vortices constantly twist and mix magnetized plasma, potentially fueling flares and CMEs. Future work will automate detection to quantify energy transport to higher layers.
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Researchers developed a bioengineered chewing gum (bean-gum base with FRIL antiviral protein, enhanced with protegrin) that targets microbes linked to head and neck cancer. In ex vivo tests on patient saliva, gum extracts reduced HPV by up to 93% and lowered two cancer-associated bacteria, Porphyromonas gingivalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum, by almost to zero with a single dose, while sparing beneficial oral bacteria. The approach could supplement or prevent infection alongside existing therapies. Study led by Henry Daniell (UPenn); published in Scientific Reports.
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Oliver Haslam argues that USB-C cables are indistinguishable by sight despite varying charging and data capabilities. He uses a $15 USB-C tester to measure voltage, current, and real-time power drawn, helping identify which cables can fast-charge a 16-inch MacBook Pro and other devices. He notes the importance of e-marker chips and that cables can lie about specs; a tester alone helps, but you can't tell data-speed from the cable without more advanced meters. He pairs testing with a label maker to categorize cables, hoping cables will come with labels or color codes.
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Guajes de Ayala, Guerrero: a 50-person self-defense group formed as cartels pressed into remote communities. Armed with U.S.-made AK-47s and AR-15s, grenades, and drones, they patrol mountains to deter the Nueva Familia Michoacana. Born in 2020 after land seizures, the vigilantes reflect a fractured security landscape where multiple cartels and gangs operate; many residents fled, schools closed, clinics shuttered. The government remains split on vigilantes, and the killing of El Mencho threatens to trigger further violence as power shifts.
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