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Thanks to a prod from @…, I finally fixed the issue with full-screen videos looking inverted on my personal site in dark mode.
Also, just updated my blog post on how to implement quick and dirty dark mode support in a few lines of code using CSS filters with the additional code:

The NHTSA closes a 2021 investigation into Tesla's Autopilot and opens a new one to evaluate whether a December 2023 Autopilot recall fix is effective enough (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/tesla-nhtsa-…

Tesla Autopilot investigation closed after feds find 13 fatal crashes related to misuse | TechCrunch
The agency opened the probe in 2021, and reviewed hundreds of crashes that involved Autopilot. It says there's a "critical safety gap."

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Predicting postoperative risks using large language models
Predicting postoperative risk can inform effective care management & planning. We explored large language models (LLMs) in predicting postoperative risk through clinical texts using various tuning strategies. Records spanning 84,875 patients from Barnes Jewish Hospital (BJH) between 2018 & 2021, with a mean duration of follow-up based on the length of postoperative ICU stay less than 7 days, were utilized. Methods were replicated on the MIMIC-III dataset. Outcomes included 30-day mortality, pul…

2021 retro-link! https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/ - Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.

#Giuliani suggests he may sue #Trump for 'unpaid legal fees' in bankruptcy filing - Alternet.org
https://www.alt…

Giuliani suggests he may sue Trump for 'unpaid legal fees' in bankruptcy filing
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — who was the personal attorney of former President Donald Trump until 2021 — recently hinted that a lawsuit against his former client may be forthcoming.In a filing submitted Friday to a New York bankruptcy court, Giuliani listed his assets, which total roug...

Daily reminder that Portland, Oregon, police admitted they wrote fewer traffic citations and blamed it on exaggerated staffing issues as a political ploy to increase funding. And it worked!
https://bikeportland.org/2023/08/08/po

Portland Police Bureau officer admits traffic enforcement messaging was politically motivated
Something the Portland Police Bureau did in 2021 has bothered me ever since.

Sweet little brindle Phoebe… she's only 2½ and loves everyone and everything. Should be no problems finding her her first pet home.
https://www.hershamhounds.org.uk/homeless-hounds/phoebe-born-sept-2021/

får man skriva att man är en "icke vinstdrivande" skola när man i regel gör 6-7 siffror plus och tar ut utdelningar mellan 300-750 kkr varje år?
Utdelningar senaste åren är 742 kkr (2022-12-19), 726 kkr (2021-10-29), 705 kkr (2020-10-28), 300 kkr (2019-11-08), 300 kkr (2018-12-10), 390 kkr (2017-11-30).
Vinster senaste åren:
19-20 1,5 mkr.
20-21 1,2 mkr.
21-22 700 kkr.
22-23 800 kkr.
Uppgifter från årsredovisningarna som ligger på

@… Updated: GPU/MinKNOW basecalling server walkthrough:
https://gringer.gitlab.io/presentation-notes/2021/10/08/gpu-callin…

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Algorithmic Changes Are Not Enough: Evaluating the Removal of Race Adjustment from the eGFR Equation
Changing clinical algorithms to remove race adjustment has been proposed and implemented for multiple health conditions. Removing race adjustment from estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations may reduce disparities in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but has not been studied in clinical practice after implementation. Here, we assessed whether implementing an eGFR equation (CKD-EPI 2021) without adjustment for Black or African American race modified quarterly rates of nephrology referr…

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Spherical two-distance sets and graph eigenvalues
Let $N_{α,β}(d)$ denote the maximum size of a spherical two-distance set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ such that the inner products of distinct vectors only take $α$ and $β$. By considering the correspondence between spherical two-distance sets and graphs with specific spectral properties, we determine $N_{α,β}(d)$ for fixed $-1\leqβ<0\leqα<1$ and sufficiently large $d$, which extends the work in [Equiangular lines with a fixed angle, Ann. Math. 194 (2021) 729-743] and [Spherical two-distance sets …

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Fused Extended Two-Way Fixed Effects for Difference-in-Differences with Staggered Adoptions
To address the bias of the canonical two-way fixed effects estimator for difference-in-differences under staggered adoptions, Wooldridge (2021) proposed the extended two-way fixed effects estimator, which adds many parameters. However, this reduces efficiency. Restricting some of these parameters to be equal (for example, subsequent treatment effects within a cohort) helps, but ad hoc restrictions may reintroduce bias. We propose a machine learning estimator with a single tuning parameter, fuse…

Wonderful combination of touching mellowness, floating atop layers of skillful beat programming carpentry
Serge Geyzel — Quick Time Traveller (2021)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Bwdi7Nrj4sY

SenseTime's stock rises 30% after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; SenseTime's stock is down 80% since its 2021 HK IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

China’s SenseTime Soars 36% After Unveiling Latest Generative AI Model
SenseTime Group Inc.’s stock soared its most in more than two years after releasing the latest version of its SenseNova generative AI model, highlighting the intense interest surrounding China’s efforts to develop artificial intelligence.

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Comparing Diagonals on the Associahedra
We prove that the formula for the diagonal approximation $Δ_{K}$ on J. Stasheff's $n$-dimensional associahedron $K_{n+2}$ derived by the current authors in 2004 agrees with the "magical formula" for the diagonal approximation $Δ_{K}^{\prime}$ derived by Markl and Shnider in 2006, by Loday in 2011, and by Masuda, Thomas, Tonks, and Vallette in 2021.

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New bounds for normal approximation on product spaces with applications to monochromatic edges, random sums and an infinite de Jong CLT
We extend the Malliavin theory for $L^2$-functionals on product probability spaces that has recently been developed by Decreusefond and Halconruy (2019) and by Duerinckx (2021), by characterizing the domains and investigating the actions of the three Malliavin operators in terms of the infinite Hoeffding decomposition in $L^2$, which we identify as the natural analogue of the famous Wiener-Itô chaos decomposition on Gaussian and Poisson spaces. We further combine this theory with Stein's metho…

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Sampling Proper Colorings on Line Graphs Using $(1+o(1))Δ$ Colors
We prove that the single-site Glauber dynamics for sampling proper $q$-colorings mixes in $O_Δ(n\log n)$ time on line graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $Δ$ when $q>(1+o(1))Δ$. The main tool in our proof is the matrix trickle-down theorem developed by Abdolazimi, Liu and Oveis Gharan (FOCS, 2021).

Fossil fuel companies are not good faith participants in democratic debates about climate change policies, they are purveyors of predatory delay. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video…

With all this talk of how to find nodes in the DOM (other than using IDs or when those nodes have no ID), I am still a fan of XPath via dev tools:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/04/xpath-for-in-browser-testing.html
For example, getting all nodes…

XPath for In-Browser Testing
Both Chrome and Firefox support XPath searches when in the DOM view of their dev tools. Because the browser cleans whatever HTML it encounters (closing tags, correcting nesting), XPath can operate on the code as XML. Simple checks like finding a unique ID value can result in multiple hits in…

Spain.
Wolf population stable despite hunting ban.
"The wolf invasion that never happened".
#rewilding
La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza

La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza
Allí donde antes estaba permitido matarlos, la población de lobos en España se mantiene sin grandes cambios tras la prohibición de su caza en 2021. Lejos de una explosión, el número de manadas en Galicia, Asturias o Cantabria son similares a los de 2020, antes de que el lobo recibiera protección en todo el territorio, según los últimos datos oficiales de recuento de las propias comunidades autónomas. Cuando en septiembre de 2021 quedó prohibida la caza general de lobos, cuatro comuni…

Donald Trump's Truth Social is set to become part of a publicly traded company after a long-delayed merger was approved.
On Friday, a shell company created solely to buy Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, approved the merger, The New York Times reported.
👉Trump's net worth is set to jump more than $3 billion from the deal, based on his large stake in the social-media platform he helped create in the wake of his post-January 6, 2021, Cap…

Truth Social is going public, boosting Trump's wealth by $3 billion
A long-delayed merger between Truth Social's parent company and a shell company was approved on Friday, increasing Trump's worth by billions.

Partage de clé secrète de Shamir
https://www.palabritudes.net/2021/08/24/partage-cle-secrete-shamir.html

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Algorithmic Changes Are Not Enough: Evaluating the Removal of Race Adjustment from the eGFR Equation
Changing clinical algorithms to remove race adjustment has been proposed and implemented for multiple health conditions. Removing race adjustment from estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations may reduce disparities in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but has not been studied in clinical practice after implementation. Here, we assessed whether implementing an eGFR equation (CKD-EPI 2021) without adjustment for Black or African American race modified quarterly rates of nephrology referr…

D937,934 - issued in 2021 for a design for a "chief executive officer game." #DesignPatents

task failed successfully. Bruce Lehrmann is now a rapist, after suing to try to prevent people from calling him an "alleged rapist"
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/bruce-lehrmann-achieves-goal-of-losing-title-of-alleged-rapist/
they also get their own separate wiki article, instead of being /one/ of the Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Australian_Parliament_House_sexual_misconduct_allegations#2019_rape_in_Parliament_house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lehrmann

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Unlocking Insights: Enhanced Analysis of Covariance in General Factorial Designs through Multiple Contrast Tests under Variance Heteroscedasticity
A common goal in clinical trials is to conduct tests on estimated treatment effects adjusted for covariates such as age or sex. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) is often used in these scenarios to test the global null hypothesis of no treatment effect using an $F$-test. However, in several samples, the $F$-test does not provide any information about individual null hypotheses and has strict assumptions such as variance homoscedasticity. We extend the method proposed by Konietschke et al. (2021) …

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A Comparative Study of Factor Models for Different Periods of the Electricity Spot Price Market
Due to major shifts in European energy supply, a structural change can be observed in Austrian electricity spot price data starting from the second quarter of the year 2021 onward. In this work we study the performance of two different factor models for the electricity spot price in three different time periods. To this end, we consider three samples of EEX data for the Austrian base load electricity spot price, one from the pre-crises from 2018 to 2021, the second from the time of the crisis f…

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Proving the stability estimates of variational least-squares Kernel-Based methods
Motivated by the need for the rigorous analysis of the numerical stability of variational least-squares kernel-based methods for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations, we provide previously lacking stability inequalities. This fills a significant theoretical gap in the previous work [Comput. Math. Appl. 103 (2021) 1-11], which provided error estimates based on a conjecture on the stability. With the stability estimate now rigorously proven, we complete the theoretical fou…

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PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
We present the second NuSTAR and XMM-Newton extragalactic survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF). The first NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey (Zhao et al. 2021) had 681 ks total exposure time executed in NuSTAR cycle 5, in 2019 and 2020. This second survey, acquired from 2020 to 2022 in cycle 6, adds 880 ks of NuSTAR exposure time. The overall NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey is the most sensitive NuSTAR extragalactic survey to date, and a total of 60 sources were detected above the 95% …

HoneyRock – June 2021 #Family

Von 2021: #Covid, #Göttingen https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1413823527111864320.htm…

Thread by @zineworkshop on Thread Reader App
Thread by @zineworkshop: Covid? Letzes Jahr im Juni: Zwangsquarantäne in #Göttingen in der Groner Landstr. 9. Solidarische bringen Verpflegung. @threadreaderapp unroll

What happened to the 2021 NFL Draft QBs? Why Justin Fields and others are with new teams https://theathletic.com/5349014/2024/03/18/justin-fields-mac-jones-nfl-draft-2021-quarterback-problems/

What happened to the 2021 NFL Draft QBs? Why Justin Fields and others are with new teams
Organizations drafting QBs this year should take note of the mistakes made with Fields, Mac Jones, Trey Lance and Zach Wilson.

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Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies
Inspired by the works of Goldreich and Ron (J. ACM, 2017) and Nakar and Ron (ICALP, 2021), we initiate the study of property testing in dynamic environments with arbitrary topologies. Our focus is on the simplest non-trivial rule that can be tested, which corresponds to the 1-BP rule of bootstrap percolation and models a simple spreading behavior: Every "infected" node stays infected forever, and each "healthy" node becomes infected if and only if it has at least one infected neighbor. We show …

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Fused Extended Two-Way Fixed Effects for Difference-in-Differences with Staggered Adoptions
To address the bias of the canonical two-way fixed effects estimator for difference-in-differences under staggered adoptions, Wooldridge (2021) proposed the extended two-way fixed effects estimator, which adds many parameters. However, this reduces efficiency. Restricting some of these parameters to be equal (for example, subsequent treatment effects within a cohort) helps, but ad hoc restrictions may reintroduce bias. We propose a machine learning estimator with a single tuning parameter, fuse…

Tracking fifth-year options for 2021 first-rounders: Which have been picked up or declined? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39900614/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2021-first-round-draft-class

NFL fifth-year option tracker: 2021 first round draft class - ESPN
The May 2 deadline is approaching for teams to pick up fifth-year options on rookie contracts. Which teams have made a decision?

Becoming #Nawalny - Putins Staatsfeind Nr. 1 (Deutsch)
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/arte/becoming-na…

ARTE: Becoming Nawalny - Putins Staatsfeind Nr. 1 | ARD Mediathek
Becoming Nawalny - Putins Staatsfeind Nr. 1 | Video | Er war der bekannteste russische Oppositionelle: Alexej Nawalny, 2020 vergiftet, 2021 verhaftet, in berüchtigten Straflagern weggesperrt und am 16. Februar 2024 im Alter von nur 47 Jahren unter bislang ungeklärten Umständen im sibirischen Straflager Nr. 3 verstorben. Wie wurde Nawalny zum schärfsten Gegner Putins? Weggefährten erzählen Nawalnys Werdegang.

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Study on the accidental background of the JSNS$^2$ experiment
JSNS$^2$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment which searches for sterile neutrinos via the observation of $\barν_μ \to \barν_{e}$ appearance oscillations using muon decay-at-rest neutrinos. The data taking of JSNS$^2$ have been performed from 2021. In this manuscript, a study of the accidental background is presented. The rate of the accidental background is (9.29$\pm 0.39) \times 10^{-8}$ / spill with 0.75 MW beam power and comparable to the …

“Costco has made it easier for members to shell out thousands of dollars on gold bars—and get a $1.50 hot dog while they are at it.”
https://press.coop/@WSJ/112215912230520704

The Wall Street Journal :_p: (@WSJ@press.coop)
The Costco Shoppers Putting $2,000 Gold Bars in Their Carts Young investors say the old-school store of value is a hedge against inflation and catastrophe. #press https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-costco-shoppers-putting-2-000-gold-bars-in-their-carts-d4e8aeb5?utm_source=press.coop

Oh god
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/92041231

Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS / ろぐうぅぅかいしいぃぃぃ / August 16th, 2021 - pixiv
pixiv

Zum Glück gibt es in #Fahrradmordor eine neutrale #polizei:
„Verwarngeld gegen #Natenom“

Wie die Behörden in Pforzheim mit einer Anzeige eines Autofahrers gegen Natenom umgegangen sind…
…im Kontrast zum Umgang mit Anzeigen von Natenom gegen Autofahrende. Vor mehreren Wochen hat mich jemand angezeigt. Diese Anzeige wurde bearbeitet von einem Polizisten in Pforzheim, ich nenne ihn hier „Plz“ und von einem Mitarbeiter der Bußgeldstelle Pforzheim, ich nenne ihn hier Herrn „BgSt“. Ich möchte zuvor einige Informationen zu dem Polizisten und auch zur Bußgeldstelle nennen, bevor es dann um die Anzeige gegen mich geht. Diese Informationen sind meiner Ansicht nach wichtig, …

story of my life
https://www.der-postillon.com/2021/02/dissertation.html

CVS pharmacist Ashleigh Anderson's death at work becomes rallying cry https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/08/cvs-pharmacist-ashleigh-anderson-death-rallying-cry/72406578007/<…

CVS pharmacist's death becomes cautionary tale of crushing stress at work
Ashleigh Anderson's 2021 heart attack death while working as a CVS pharmacist became a viral tale of extreme pressure to hit corporate goals.

CO₂ monitoring, useful explainer
Here's my own explainer about CO₂ monitoring.
It covers some of the same topics as the one above, but filling in more background knowledge. When I wrote it, I was thinking of e.g. a teacher with lots of knowledge about children and not much knowledge about science, who just wanted to make their classroom safer from covid.
#CovidIsAirborne #monitoring

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Nodal precession of a hot Jupiter transiting the edge of a late A-type star TOI-1518
TOI-1518b, a hot Jupiter around a late A-type star, is one of the few planetary systems that transit the edge of the stellar surface (the impact parameter $b\sim0.9 $) among hot Jupiters around hot stars (Cabot et al. 2021). The high rotation speed of the host star ($\sim85$ km s$^{-1}$) and the nearly polar orbit of the planet ($\sim 120$ deg) may cause a nodal precession. In this study, we report the nodal precession undergone by TOI-1518\,b. This system is the fourth planetary system in whic…

Smartmatic and OANN say they have settled a defamation suit filed by the voting tech company, filed in 2021 (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/

Wem sind die Harkonnen in Dune 2021 auch nicht pervertiert genug?

Imany - I'm still standing
(Cover, aber gefällt mir besser als das Original)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UvwUH50xLnKlgz5l17P9T?si=2SB-2sv4RsCHHIgCUiYmcg

I'm Still Standing
Imany · Song · 2021

Inflation bleibt hoch - Seit 2022 gingen zehn Mrd. Euro Kaufkraft verloren #News #Nachrichten

Huh, Funmation is removing folks digital copies of a show about PIRATES and PIRATING. It's a shame that these aren't on yOUtUBE-dOUBTLESSlESSpLAYS there. (Huh, must have had my caps lock on.)
Still, I'm sure fans are crying TORRENTS of tears.
https://…

🎶Bolle reiste jüngst zu Pfingsten,
Nach Pankow war sein Ziel 🎶
"In einem anderen Wahllokal in Berlin-Pankow wurde ein Wahlvorstand gegen seine Stellvertreterin ausgewechselt, weil er möglicherweise angetrunken war."
Berlin: "Dit is uns völli' ejal, wat die von uns halten. Wir sind Eure Hauptstadt, Ihr Bauern."

Filings: SoftBank's stake in Paytm was ~5% in January vs. ~18.5% around Paytm's 2021 IPO; SoftBank says it sold most of its stake due to regulatory scrutiny (Min Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SoftBank Vision Fund Sold Paytm Stake Before Shares Plunged
SoftBank Group Corp. sold a majority of its stake in Paytm before regulatory scrutiny caused the once-celebrated Indian fintech firm’s shares to dive, according to the Vision Fund’s executive managing partner.

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On Trojan Signatures in Large Language Models of Code
Trojan signatures, as described by Fields et al. (2021), are noticeable differences in the distribution of the trojaned class parameters (weights) and the non-trojaned class parameters of the trojaned model, that can be used to detect the trojaned model. Fields et al. (2021) found trojan signatures in computer vision classification tasks with image models, such as, Resnet, WideResnet, Densenet, and VGG. In this paper, we investigate such signatures in the classifier layer parameters of large la…

2021 retro-link! https://wjwh.eu/posts/2021-10-01-no-syscall-server-iouring.html - Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.

Bill – January 2021 on the sofa <https://photos.app.goo.gl/K2prrkre49L6d2PP6>, 17th March 2022 in a cot.
This weekend seems to be the second anniversary of his homecoming from New Priory Vets. He was an in-patient for around eleven days, with hypocalcaemia – an extrao…

Earlier today, members of the community came out and installed a one-block road diet on Franklin Street between Green and Union in front of Sherman Elementary School. This is where Andrew Zieman was killed in 2021 and where the city has reneged on its promise to narrow the road.

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ACM MMSys 2024 Bandwidth Estimation in Real Time Communications Challenge
The quality of experience (QoE) delivered by video conferencing systems to end users depends in part on correctly estimating the capacity of the bottleneck link between the sender and the receiver over time. Bandwidth estimation for real-time communications (RTC) remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the continuously evolving heterogeneous network architectures and technologies. From the first bandwidth estimation challenge which was hosted at ACM MMSys 2021, we learnt that bandwidt…

"From 2021 to 2024, the number of #apartments scheduled for conversion from old office spaces increased from 12,100 to 55,300.
Behind this shift lies a crucial factor: the $150 billion in office #mortgages due by 2024. As residential space demand surges,

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Portishead:
🎵 Sour times
#Portishead
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vTtCOimcPs5H1Jr9d0Aep
https://thehalotrees.bandcamp.com/track/sour-times-portishead-cover-single-2021

"On November 10, 2021, bitcoin peaked at $68,990. The price tipped over that for two minutes, from 15:04 to 15:05 UTC yesterday, March 5, 2024.
The price promptly dropped $2,000 straight away, and then another $8,000 by 20:00 UTC, as the bagholders tried desperately to cash out — while they could, as Coinbase had yet another inexplicable outage, coincidentally with all the other exchanges."
Come one kids, we know this by know. Bitcoin price is pumped with stable coins …

Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?”
And Tether cracks 100 billion USDT. Probably just a coincidence.

@… @… e to pewnie będą jeszcze jakieś premiery lub te które teraz są kosmicznie drogie będą tańsze 😅 Ten model co ja wziąłem to chyba z 2021 jest także trochę staroć 😉

Next: 18 Kilometer bis Ljubljana von Goran Vojnovic [2021].
Keine Ahnung, ob ich das durchhalte, sehr viele und beleidigende Schimpfwörter, verpackt als [ja, schon] relativ authentische Jugendsprache, und dennoch.

Our ten minute appointment took about 90 seconds! 😂 Muy fšcil y amable, pero estšbamos muy nerviosos. 😬 🤣
The journey is done! The hoops are jumped!
After 2.5yrs -- I sent the first email about getting my and their citizenship in October 2021 -- they will have their Spanish/EU passports in 5-6 weeks! 🇪🇸 🎉 @…

My evening's entertainment: re-doing an analysis I did over 35 years ago, but with more recent data (and taking an hour, not a week, using #Stata, not #fortran ): birth rates in Ireland by parity and year of age, 2008-2021, using the most recent data from

Over the next 15 years we will spend $3 Trillion on highway expansions and maintenance in the United States
With 2.5% of that funding Amtrak will deliver their vision of adding 39 new routes and enhancing 25 routes!
Imagine what Amtrak could do with 5% of the highway budget?

Satire is officially dead. It has to be noted that both senators and members of congress are allowed to trade stocks — many of them criticize fore…

Senators Own up to $25 Million in Big Tech Stocks
Senators invested in tech stocks like Amazon, Apple, and Google may soon be voting on antitrust bills introduced in the Senate that would impact their portfolios.

People: Hey 1hitsong, why do you still buy physical media when you can #stream everything?!
Me: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/0

»Man kann die GSV und ihr Wirken als pure Lust am Spielen sehen. Ich erkenne darin aber auch eine augenzwinkernde Replik auf die Sprachverhunzungsphobien und Untergangsphantasien eines Vereins Deutsche Sprache (VDS) und anderer, selbst ernannter Sprachhüter.«
Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben (Hg.). 2021. NEUTSCH: Grammatik, Wortschatz, Literatur. Klingnau: edition b. 200 S., 24 €, ISBN: 978-3-033-08529-9

Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben (Hg.). 2021. NEUTSCH: Grammatik, Wortschatz, Literatur. Klingnau: edition b. 200 S., 24 €, ISBN: 978-3-033-08529-9
Article Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben (Hg.). 2021. NEUTSCH: Grammatik, Wortschatz, Literatur. Klingnau: edition b. 200 S., 24 €, ISBN: 978-3-033-08529-9 was published on March 7, 2024 in the journal Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik (volume 0, issue 0).

For food originalists, this rerun is gospel: Opinion | America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?
https://wapo.st/4912u7D
> Americans invented the dessert we call pie. Why are they letting it die?

TIL: Wenn in Deutschland an einer Baustelle Steine runterfliegen und potentiell jemand verletzen könnten oder schlimmeres, aber gerade niemand in der Nähe war, hat das keine Konsequenzen für die Verantwortlichen. Dafür müsste schon jemand dagestanden und nur knapp verfehlt worden sein („Beinahe-Unfall“).

Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart - Fassadenabsturz: Staatsanwaltschaft stellt Verfahren ein
Ein Fehler beim Bahnhofsumbau für Stuttgart 21 im Sommer 2021, bei dem Steinquader aus der Fassade brachen, hat nun keine rechtlichen Folgen. Dabei spielt die Uhrzeit eine Rolle.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02847 has been replaced.
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On the Length of Strongly Monotone Descending Chains over $\mathbb{N}^d$
A recent breakthrough by Künnemann, Mazowiecki, Schütze, Sinclair-Banks, and Wegrzycki (ICALP, 2023) bounds the running time for the coverability problem in $d$-dimensional vector addition systems under unary encoding to $n^{2^{O(d)}}$, improving on Rackoff's $n^{2^{O(d\lg d)}}$ upper bound (Theor. Comput. Sci., 1978), and provides conditional matching lower bounds. In this paper, we revisit Lazić and Schmitz' "ideal view" of the backward coverability algorithm (Inform. Comput., 2021) in t…

Opinion: Congress has already disqualified Trump from the ballot
Opinion by Tristan Snell
This may come as a shock. When, one might ask, did Congress ever hold such votes?
Those votes came in the second impeachment of Trump, in January and February of 2021, in which majorities of both the House and the Senate backed an article of impeachment against Trump for “incitement of insurrection.”
This was a finding of fact, by majorities of our elected representatives, after …

NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce will retire at the end of March after taking the position in 2021; Deputy Director David Luber will assume the role (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2024/02/nsa-cyb…

NSA cyber director to step down after 34 years of service
His departure comes amid heightened security fears in 2024 and debate over whether to renew a controversial spying power.

Dolphins' GM says team will pick up fifth-year options on these two stars from 2021 NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin

Dolphins' GM says team will pick up fifth-year options on these two stars from 2021 NFL Draft
Miami surely hopes to keep Waddle and Phillips in the fold for years to come

Auch beachtlich: In den beiden Ostbezirken, in denen Die Linke die Direktmandate hat (Köpenick und Lichtenberg) hat Die Linke jeweils 2% bzw 4% mehr Zweitstimmen in den Wahlbezirken, die neu gewählt haben (im Vergleich zu 2021).
Die AfD hat da jeweils sehr viel mehr Stimmen als vor zwei Jahren. Aber offenbar nicht von der Linken.

PitchBook: in 2021, 223 male-founded video game startups raised $4.1B, five women-founded startups raised $1.2M, and 62 mixed-gender startups raised $400.9M (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)
https://www.polygon.com/24058266/video-game-industry-funding-gap

The video game funding gap: How investors are failing marginalized developers
‘There is a massive disparity on how funding is allocated in the industry,’ according to industry experts. Companies led by marginalized leaders get way, way less funding.

"That means at least three lawsuits brought against him in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can advance to the next phase — a period of limited evidence-gathering related to Trump’s activities on Jan. 6, 2021 and whether they were official or political in nature."
Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now - POLITICO

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Protect Your Score: Contact Tracing With Differential Privacy Guarantees
The pandemic in 2020 and 2021 had enormous economic and societal consequences, and studies show that contact tracing algorithms can be key in the early containment of the virus. While large strides have been made towards more effective contact tracing algorithms, we argue that privacy concerns currently hold deployment back. The essence of a contact tracing algorithm constitutes the communication of a risk score. Yet, it is precisely the communication and release of this score to a user that an…

2021 retro-link! https://theconversation.com/a-giant-space-rock-demolished-an-ancient-middle-eastern-city-and-everyone-in-it-possibly-inspiring-the-biblical-story-of-sodom-1…

The New York Times' The Daily ran a greenwashing BP ad on its January 31 podcast, despite a 2021 pledge by the NYT to ban sponsorships by oil and gas companies (HEATED)
https://heated.world/p/the-daily-runs-a-greenwashing-bp

“The Daily” runs a greenwashing BP ad
The Daily promised to end fossil fuel sponsorships in 2021. BP promised to stop “corporate reputation advertising” in 2020.

I feel a little better that I stopped backing projects in Kickstarter when it announced this move at the end of 2021. Eff that guy.
https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/112079888590848036

web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat@indieweb.social)
Attached: 2 images Kickstarter's bizarre "pivot to blockchain" spurred by secret $100 million Andreessen Horowitz investment March 11, 2024 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=kickstarters-a16z-induced-pivot-to-blockchain

Once a community becomes a hot spot for these pollutants, it’s nearly impossible to clean it up for good.
In fact, ProPublica found, such a success story is virtually unheard of.
In 2021, we published a cutting-edge national map of more than 1,000 communities that had become what are known as “#sacrifice #zones

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, Kentucky, remains polluted. The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

2021 retro-link! https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/ - A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.

Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/10

Security Startup Wiz in Talks to Acquire Lacework for $200 Million
Cybersecurity startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire Lacework, one of its largest private competitors, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. The deal values Lacework at between $150 million and $200 million, according to one of the people, a sharp decline from the ...

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The Falsification Adaptive Set in Linear Models with Instrumental Variables that Violate the Exclusion or Conditional Exogeneity Restriction
Masten and Poirier (2021) introduced the falsification adaptive set (FAS) in linear models with a single endogenous variable estimated with multiple correlated instrumental variables (IVs). The FAS reflects the model uncertainty that arises from falsification of the baseline model. We show that it applies to cases where a conditional exogeneity assumption holds and invalid instruments violate the exclusion assumption only. We propose a generalized FAS that reflects the model uncertainty when so…

2024 Super Bowl: 49ers tie gambling record by being favored in as many games as the 2021 Chiefs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-su

2024 Super Bowl: 49ers tie gambling record by being favored in as many games as the 2021 Chiefs
San Francisco has been favored in every game this season

Coinbase stock crosses the exchange's 2021 direct listing price of $250 after growing over 300% in the last 12 months, as bitcoin hovers around record highs (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Coinbase (COIN) Tops Direct Listing Price as Bitcoin Surges to Record
Coinbase Global Inc. has finally climbed back above its direct listing price Friday morning for the first time in more than two years.

2021 retro-link! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210827/11343147446/most-information-about-disinformation-is-misinformation.shtml - Most information about disinformation is misinformation.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04814 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Falsification Adaptive Set in Linear Models with Instrumental Variables that Violate the Exclusion or Conditional Exogeneity Restriction
Masten and Poirier (2021) introduced the falsification adaptive set (FAS) in linear models with a single endogenous variable estimated with multiple correlated instrumental variables (IVs). The FAS reflects the model uncertainty that arises from falsification of the baseline model. We show that it applies to cases where a conditional exogeneity assumption holds and invalid instruments violate the exclusion assumption only. We propose a generalized FAS that reflects the model uncertainty when so…

How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/…

How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones, and glory
After a decade of building the future, tech’s new guard is going back to the American past, spurring a funding frenzy in defense technology

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix - Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes.

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs - DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system.

Carlyle Group agrees to sell UK game publisher Jagex, which develops RuneScape, to CVC Capital, sources say for £900M, after acquiring it in 2021 for $530M (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)
https://t.co/5oIj2ceEy9

Ransomware payments in 2023 reached a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, as the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks escalated (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ransomware-2024/

Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023
Ransomware attackers broke records in 2023, pulling in over $1 billion from victims. Learn how and get the trends you need to know for 2024.

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20