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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The mystery surrounding the identity of Everest's infamous 'Green Boots' climber has finally been solved after a DNA test. For almost 30 years, the body of the climber – preserved in snow and ice high on the world's tallest mountain – became a macabre landmark for thousands attempting to reach the summit. Known simply as 'Green Boots' because of his distinctive bright green mountaineering footwear still protruding from the snow and ice, the remains have now been identified as Indian climber Dorje Morup, 47.For decades, many mountaineers believed the…

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Back in March, Rivian’s Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid, was interviewed by the excellent Nilay Patel for Decoder. If you’re not a Decoder listener, you should be. If you’re not a subscriber of The Verge, you should be. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. In this interview — which I greatly enjoyed! — Nilay grills Wassym on all manner of issues. The whole time, though, I was waiting for one topic: CarPlay. CarPlay is a way to interact with your phone…

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but essentially all modern techniques for preserving privacy in large datasets, for example in the 2030 US Census. I realize that many of us have “outrage fatigue,” but this particular outrage…

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This package is not (yet) available in popular Emacs repositories such as MELPA or ELPA. An example installation with Elpaca: (use-package modusregel :ensure (:host codeberg :repo "jjba23/modusregel" :branch "trunk") :demand t) Note: remember that mode-line-format is window-local, this means that to persist changes and set it globally, one must use setq-default and for tweaking and experimenting, change it temporarily to setq. ;; window only (setq mode-line-format modusregel-format) ;; global (setq-default mode-line-format modusregel-format) To ensure the modeline is set in your config, you should tweak the…

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Stellar rotation is a crucial aspect of not only stellar evolution but also exoplanet science, and a recent study has built the largest catalog of stellar rotation periods to date. Stellar Opportunities with TESS Since its launch in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has scoured the sky, searching for the signature recurring dip in starlight caused by planetary companions. While the primary goal of TESS is to discover exoplanets, the satellite’s mapping of the entire sky has created a rich database of high-quality…