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Once high-flying bankers in Hong Kong become a lost generation
The damage is underscored by the barrage of layoffs, the retreat of global capital, and the city’s diminishing role as an international financial center.

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

Trying and failing to wrap my head around a sequencing method, so let's see how this network does at a little crowdsourcing: #genetics and #genomics folks, can any of you tell me what would make "chip-based genotyping by target sequencing" (GBTS) different from other sequence capture met…

Rereading Jane Guyer's "Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa" for class next week. When I first read it, I could feel the scales falling from my eyes. Guyer does a brilliant job digging into actual money use, showing how economic theory is imperialist and the ways in which it can prevent understanding on-the-ground practices that, when considered differently, make all kinds of sense. I cannot overstate how much I love this book.

I'm still learning about health vs body size and this article does a good job addressing the complexities revealed by the popularity of Ozempic and similar drugs.
"By treating obesity as a disease rather than as a moral failing, these drugs and the doctors who champion them do bolster the more righteous aims of fat activists to divorce size from moral judgment. But these drugs also exist for weight loss, and their entire justification is the argument that obesity is a health …

Here’s Who Should Pay for Everyone’s Ozempic
The people responsible for getting us into this situation, of course.

In the "Where's My Flying Car?" Department:
Rust to riches? Ohio city’s fortunes set to rise with flying taxi startup
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/flying-taxi-joby-aviation-ohio

Leveraging Stack Traces for Spectrum-based Fault Localization in the Absence of Failing Tests
Lorena Barreto Simedo Pacheco (Peter), An Ran Chen (Peter), Jinqiu Yang (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00565

Leveraging Stack Traces for Spectrum-based Fault Localization in the Absence of Failing Tests
Bug fixing is a crucial task in software maintenance to hold user trust. Although various automated fault localization techniques exist, they often require specific conditions to be effective. For example, Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) techniques need at least one failing test to identify bugs, which may not always be available. Bug reports, particularly those with stack traces, provide detailed information on system execution failures and are invaluable for developers. This study fo…

The US DOJ says it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more, evading ~$50M in taxes (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/30/feds-charge-bit…

Feds charge ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ with $50 million tax fraud
Roger Ver is a famous figure from the early days of Bitcoin who renounced his citizenship.

Netflix names Dan Lin, the producer of the Lego movies and the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, as head of film, replacing Scott Stuber (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts<…

Netflix hires 'It' producer Dan Lin for top film job, replacing Scott Stuber
Since forming his production company, Rideback, which is located in L.A.'s historic Filipinotown neighborhood, nearly 15 years ago, Lin has produced films including the "Lego" franchise and others that have grossed $6 billion in worldwide box office.

Deposition of highly-crystalline AlScN thin films using synchronized HiPIMS -- from combinatorial screening to piezoelectric devices
Jyotish Patidar (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, D\"ubendorf, Switzerland), Kerstin Thorwarth (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, D\"ubendorf, Switzerland), Thorsten Schmitz-Kempen (aixACCT Systems GmbH, Aachen, Germany), Roland Kessels (aixACCT Systems GmbH, Aachen, Germ…

Deposition of highly-crystalline AlScN thin films using synchronized HiPIMS -- from combinatorial screening to piezoelectric devices
Fueled by the 5G revolution, the demand for advanced radio frequency micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) based on AlScN is growing rapidly. However, synthesizing high-quality, textured AlScN thin films is challenging. Current approaches typically rely on high temperatures and expensive compound targets. In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of ionized physical vapor deposition to deposit highly oriented AlScN films with minimal defects at lower temperatures. Using metal-ion synchroni…