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Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA
The YSPH-developed test, called SalivaDirect, has been used as part of an NBA testing program and will now be available to more diagnostic laboratories.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public
Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.
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RethinkDB 2.4.1
We’re pleased to announce the availability of RethinkDB 2.4.1. This update includes bug fixes, build improvements and the reintroduced update checker. For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes . Don’t forget that we replaced our download server, please read our latest blog post .
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Django Async: What's new and what's next?
With Django 3.1, you can put async code in production if you don’t have to do heavy-lifting with some parts of Django that don’t support async yet.
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Vivaldi browser and open-source
People who are involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t available under a unified open-source license. Here we explain why.
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Darktable 3.2.1
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
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Factorio 1.0
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming reality. We were trying to be especially careful with any last…
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Adventures in Improving AI Economics
AI has enormous potential to disrupt markets that have traditionally been out of reach for software. These markets – which have relied on humans to navigate natural language, images, and physical space – represent a huge opportunity, potentially worth trillions of dollars globally. However, as we discussed in our…
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Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better
A recent study suggests that: "Solo founders are more than twice as likely to own an ongoing, for-profit venture than two or more founders
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Why Write ADRs
How architecture decision records can help your team.
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Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
80% of the people involved in software development spend 80% of their time developing. Why use a tool designed for planning to manage dev team activities?
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YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
We’re excited to announce our first-ever YC Build Sprint. This is a 4-week period to work intensively towards a defined goal alongside a community of thousands of other founders. The sprint will kick off on August 24 and be administered through our free Startup School platform. Also, we’ll be awarding 20 grants of…
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How the ARM32 Linux kernel decompresses
ARM traditionally uses compressed kernels. This is done for two major reasons: It saves space on the flash memory or other storage media...
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Expiring vs. permanent skills
Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.
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A New Chapter for PyPy
PyPy winds down its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy Conservancy and PyPy's great work together PyPy joined Conservancy ...
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Young children would rather explore than get rewards
Young children will pass up rewards they know they can collect to explore other options, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when adults and 4- to 5-year-old children played a game where certain choices earned them rewards, both adults and children quickly learned what choices would give them the biggest…
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US Federal Agricultural Farm Subsidies: How Much Farmers Get By Year
Federal farm subsidies make up an average of 13.5% of net farm income.
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70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet
Over 65% of the world's population is regularly on the internet, with China and India having the most internet users.
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Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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AWS Tagging Best Practices
Learn AWS tags best practices and real-world tagging strategies to improve cost visibility, organize resources, enforce standards, and automate management
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Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
The evolution of systems monitoring technology decisions and practices for multi-machine Hyperfeed and predictive technology.