✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Lastly, we describe the harness, tools and graders used in this benchmark to measure model performance. All models are tasked with finding materials where κ≥ $kappa, ε0≤ $epsilon, Y≥ $youngs and G≥ $shear. The pinned values are chosen to define the appropriate desired window, and the objective below is what the model is given. Propose dynamically stable, novel, BEOL-compatible crystalline materials that meet all of the following targets: thermal conductivity $kappa, STATIC dielectric constant $epsilon, Young's modulus $youngs, and shear modulus $shear. Every candidate…
💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I have been doing research on companies, reading 10-Ks, etc.I have been doing research on companies, reading 10-Ks, etc. Coming across Dropbox, I felt conflicted. Drew Houston is a great founder, and the Dropbox story is one of many lessons, including an 800 million dollar acquisition offer from Steve Jobs. ICloud went on to become a bigger business than Dropbox. And Sequoia’s investment in Dropbox was a great one, second to Airbnb in Fund 12. But as of late, reading the 10-K and seeing the…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: NEW BEDFORD — A city police officer has been accused by an ex-girlfriend of using Flock license plate readers to follow her, according to an affidavit filed this week for an abuse prevention order. The officer faces an internal affairs investigation, the police union president has confirmed, though he would not share for what reasons. Emily Pacheco, who works as a patrol officer, was served the abuse prevention order on Monday, with a judge determining Pacheco poses a credible threat to the physical safety of…
💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professional methodologists on staff that carry out this meticulous, difficult work.The problem: The PhD reviewers Research Gold lists on its site are AI-generated and don’t exist. Other methodologists it lists are real, but are not aware their identity is being used by Research Gold. When I tried calling the company,…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 11 Aug 2026 I recently stepped away from AI for a few weeks. Coming back, I’m more aware of the unhealthy habits I’d formed using it. It was an end-of-summer vacation, and I was lucky to be swimming in cold rivers, eating one too many s’mores, napping after lunch, etc. There was a lot of indulgence and a break from work and routines. For much of the time it was a break from my laptop and phone altogether, which meant a few weeks without AI.…
🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CHATHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A familiar sea creature that has helped save lives for decades may now need saving itself. Early each summer, horseshoe crabs crawl up on Massachusetts beaches to mate. “They are just lots of males here looking for some action,” one volunteer said. This time of year gives volunteers a chance to count just how many crabs remain. While horseshoe crabs outlived dinosaurs, their population along the East Coast drastically dipped in recent decades. One reason for the statistics is they are caught for fishing bait, another…
💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesperson, confirmed the details to Ars. “One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or supplied by Delta, was present onboard the aircraft for a short time during the flight,” Durrant told Ars via email. Delta further noted that the flight’s safety was “never in question and no aircraft operating systems were affected,” and that no emergency was declared. The actual onboard Wi-Fi was disabled for 30 minutes. The Atlanta Police Department referred all inquiries to…
💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today exercised its emergency authority in response to KalshiEX, LLC’s notification of a market emergency and ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles.KalshiEX, LLC notified the Commission of the emergency after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a complaint against the exchange in state court. In the lawsuit, filed on July 31, New York seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting KalshiEX, LLC from offering all event contracts nationwide…
💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Video gamers are in demand to help patrol the nation's skies.U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency's recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a "game changer" for the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA hired more than 2,000 video gamers to train as air traffic controllers, meeting 94% of its hiring goal, according to the Transportation Department. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the hiring pipeline, Duffy added. Why video gamers?When Duffy announced…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Continuing our investment in pg_clickhouse, improving pushdown coverage for analytic workloads has remained our top focus, with full pushdown across the TPC-H benchmark suite as our immediate metric. We've had a lot of progress since our last update in June, including on the TPC-H scoreboard, which we haven't really talked about since our introductory post back in December, so that's where we'll start. With the release of v0.10.0, our scoreboard has moved from 12 of 22 TPC-H queries fully pushed down to 16, leaving…
