💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not available commercially. In this case, Sandia’s goal was to make radiation hardened devices for use in weapons and space missions. The harshest environments and where reliability was paramount. Sandia began their fab in…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Stage,Culture,Theatre,Festivals,Circus ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toLaunched in 1981, the pioneering Montpellier Dance Festival changed the face of contemporary dance in France and beyond. In 2024, the face of the program changed when Jean-Paul Montanari, who had served as long-time president, was succeeded by a four-person directorship of Hovesh Schechter, Jean Gallois, Dominique Hervieu and Pierre Martinez - although currently the program continues the spirit of spreading dance throughout the city, mixing dance with folk.Galois's Imminent is aimed squarely at a general audience: an hour-long dynamo of six…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Bear,Television & radio,Television,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nThe show should end like a bear. The series initially made its name as a vehicle for pure progressive momentum, the story of a burned-out upscale chef who is recruited to fix and save his deceased brother's sandwich restaurant. Across eight breathless episodes, we see Carmi repeatedly exposed to the pressures of the job—the fights, the demands, and the occasional stabbing—as he seeks to rebuild it in his own image.With the benefit of hindsight, this probably should have been…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it:Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April this year, the company announced it had raised another $150M in fresh funding.But just three weeks later, Pollen laid off about 200 people, a third of staff. Leadership assured employees all was well. However, from that point on,…
💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bill Maher,Trump administration,US news,Washington DC,US politics 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a giant tarp remained in place to hide Donald Trump's humiliation.Guests entering the National Arts Complex on Sunday evening were unable to see the portion of its marble facade where Trump's name had recently been erased in compliance with the court order.But once they sat down for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony, there was nowhere to hide as the artists delivered broadsides at the…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The real issue is whether publishers of scientific journals should retroactively apply contemporary standards regarding duplicate publication or self-plagiarism to historical papers. The journal publishing norms in the early 20th century were substantially different. The emphasis was on achieving the widest dissemination of knowledge across a fragmented scientific community separated by language and geographical distance, publishing in many different journals. As a result, the boundaries were heavily blurred between lectures, conference proceedings, booklets, collected essays, published journal articles and so forth. The scientific enterprise has…
🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Ezra Collective,Jazz,Music,Culture,Music festivals,Festivals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Vanguards of the London jazz scene, five-piece collective Ezra have spent the past decade electrifying stages from Glastonbury to Wembley Arena with their quirky, high-energy songs. Making history in 2023 by becoming the first – and so far only – jazz band to win the Mercury Prize, and going on to win Best Group at the BRIT Awards in 2025, the group has come to define an improvisational sound that blends jazz traditions with the infectious West African melodies and…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today, the US grid is serving most datacenter load in the US, but we’re reaching a tipping point. As the insatiable demand for power of AI Labs and hyperscalers keeps accelerating, the grid simply can’t add capacity fast enough. That leaves Behind-The-Meter as the only way for the largest players to secure the power they need. Nearly a year ago, our Onsite Gas deep dive was the first to predict the fast rise of new entrants in the BTM gas equipment market. Since then, companies…
✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Exhibitions,Germany,World news,Art and design,Europe,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Gabrielle Stutzer remembers the days when she had to decide: "Am I going to buy a hot dog or film for my Super 8 camera?"Stutzer was one of the most radical artists in communist East Germany, and her desire to create was born in defiance and despite the material conditions and oppressive constraints of the GDR regime.“We were broke, but we were completely fascinated by the freedom,” she said.Gabriele Stutzer: “We benefited from everything we went through: our dreams,…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This open-source ATS by HackerRank has been blowing up recently: https://github.com/interviewstreet/hiring-agentIt’s popped up on LinkedIn and Reddit with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of likes. A coworker mentioned it to me in passing a few days ago.I’ve decided to test it out.First working run: 90/100. Felt pretty good!I had some debug prints scattered around from troubleshooting the setup, so I cleaned those up and ran it again.74/100.Same resume. Same command. The only thing I changed was deleting print statements.I disabled DEVELOPMENT_MODE and put it in a…
