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Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes ::

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes ::

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Who’s this forThis text is for developers that have an intuitive knowledge of what database indexes are, but don’t necessarily know how they work internaly, what are the tradeoffs associated with indexes, what are the types of indexes provided by postgres and how you can use some of its more advanced options to make them more optimized for your use case.BasicsIndexes are special database objects primarily designed to increase the speed of data access, by allowing the database to read less data from the disk.…
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Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet!

Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet!

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: @abldie Telekom nimmt nicht am Peering mit dem Deutschen Forschungsnetz teil und deshalb ist die Verbindung für Telekom-Kunden zu deutschen Universitäten eine Katastrophe. Bei mir sind es gerade über Telia 29 kB/s bei 20% Paketverlust! … Ich hoffe, dass heute jedem die gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen klar werden. Jetzt wo das Internet so wahnsinnig wichtig ist uns zu verbinden. Stattdessen werden Studenten, Personal in der Lehre und Forschende massiv daran gehindert mit ihrer Hochschule in Kontakt zu bleiben, weiter zu lernen, zu lehren und zu forschen. In…
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Meet the translation professionals losing their jobs to AI

Meet the translation professionals losing their jobs to AI

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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: London  —  As a rare Irish-language translator, Timothy McKeon enjoyed steady work for European Union institutions for years. But the rise of artificial intelligence tools that can translate text and, increasingly, speech nearly instantly has upended his livelihood and that of many others in his field. He says he lost about 70% of his income when the EU translation work dried up. Now, available work consists of polishing machine-generated translations, jobs he refuses “on principle” because they help train the software taking work away from…
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mroboff/vm-curator: vm-curator is a fast and friendly TUI to build and manage QEMU/KVM virtual machines in Linux. It does not rely on libvirt, which means 3D acceleration (para-virtualized, not pass-through) works for NVIDIA GPUs.

mroboff/vm-curator: vm-curator is a fast and friendly TUI to build and manage QEMU/KVM virtual machines in Linux. It does not rely on libvirt, which means 3D acceleration (para-virtualized, not pass-through) works for NVIDIA GPUs.

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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A fast and friendly Rust TUI for managing QEMU/KVM virtual machines. Discover, create, organize, launch, and manage VMs with an intuitive interface. Para-virtualized 3D acceleration works with NVIDIA GPUs in VMs created by vm-curator! Huzzah! This was extensively tested by the developer on an RTX-4090 in Arch Linux using NVIDIA driver 590.48.01. The guest OS still has to support QEMU 3D-accelleration. (virtio-vga-gl with gl=on.) Note this is not the same as full GPU Passthrough (the kind requiring multiple GPUs and/or jumping through many, many hoops.)…
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Alex Honnold summits Taipei 101 skyscraper in free solo climb

Alex Honnold summits Taipei 101 skyscraper in free solo climb

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Alex Honnold isn’t the first person to climb Taipei 101, but he is the first known to have done it without ropes or safety nets. Urban climber Alain Robert, also known as the “French Spiderman,” climbed the 101-story Taiwanese skyscraper as part of the building’s opening in 2004. He gave commentary on Honnold’s climb today in CNN’s live coverage. With a safety belt and rope, Robert took four hours to complete the ascent on Christmas Day amid rainy weather. The building also wasn’t finished…
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TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here’s what’s changing

TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here’s what’s changing

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TikTok’s future in the US has reached a major milestone today, as the new US-owned spinoff for American users has officially launched. Here’s what that means for TikTok users in the US today, and moving forward. US ownership established for TikTok’s American spinoff One year ago, and very briefly, TikTok shut down in the US. The move was made in compliance with legislation requiring the China-based company sell to American ownership or cease operating in the country. Very quickly though, a series of executive…
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A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals | Noam Chomsky

A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals | Noam Chomsky

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as an undergraduate, in the years just after the war, and had occasion to read them again a few months ago. They seem to me to have lost none of their power or persuasiveness. Macdonald is concerned with the question of war guilt. He asks the question: To what extent were the German or Japanese people responsible for the…
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We X-Rayed A Suspicious FTDI USB Cable – Eclypsium

We X-Rayed A Suspicious FTDI USB Cable – Eclypsium

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We recently got an industrial X-Ray machine in the Eclypsium office to use to make the next Doctor Manhattan do serious cybersecurity research. In between X-raying yet-to-be released industrial IT technologies on behalf of giant companies whose names we cannot reveal, we have done some other fun experiments. One thing we’ve done with it so far was to x-ray some FTDI USB to UART cables. We had an old cable lying around that seemed a little suspicious and dysfunctional. It worked at slow speeds…
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Two weeks until tapeout · Tales on the wire

Two weeks until tapeout · Tales on the wire

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Living under rocks#As anyone that hasn’t been living under a rock might have heard, AI accelerators are the coolest kids in town these days. And although I have never been part of the “in” crowd, this time at least, I get the appeal.So when the opportunity arose to join an experimental shuttle using global foundries 180nm for FREE I jumped onto the opportunity and designed my own JTAG!…I’m sorry? Is this not what you were expecting?Frankly, I would love to tell you a great story…
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Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds

Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) levels dropped 1.1%. The results, obtained from a new analysis based on statewide satellite data, are among the first to confirm the environmental health benefits of ZEVs, which include fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars, in the real world. The study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and just published in…
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