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US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (acs.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | acs.org | best

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Tests find high levels of PFAS in one-third of dental floss brands (ehn.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ehn.org | frontpage

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Nine Takeaways from Our Investigation into 3M's Forever Chemicals (propublica.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | propublica.org | frontpage

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Calif.-based Cue Health, once worth $2.3B lays off every remaining worker (sfgate.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | sfgate.com | frontpage

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Climbing Gyms Are Unionizing. What Does That Mean for the Climbing Community? (climbing.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | climbing.com | frontpage

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International planet hunters unveil catalog of worlds (phys.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | phys.org | newest

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Microsurgery Assistance Robot Stitching a Corn Kernel [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | youtube.com | newest

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U.S. House Passes Bill Banning Federal Reserve from Issuing a CBDC (house.gov)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | house.gov | newest

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Hundreds of Stars Have Vanished Without a Trace. A New Study Could Explain Why (iflscience.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | iflscience.com | newest

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US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011) (umsystem.edu)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | umsystem.edu | best

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Kriegsspiel (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wikipedia.org | newest

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Lead Poisoning and the Downfall of Rome: Reality or Myth? (sciencedirect.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | sciencedirect.com | newest

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Ask HN: With all that is at stake, why haven't we diversified chip production?

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ycombinator.com | newest

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Palestinian state recognized by Spain, Ireland and Norway (apnews.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | apnews.com | newest

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Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 (biorxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | biorxiv.org | newest

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The EPA Cop Who Became a Warrior for 'Forever Chemicals' (wsj.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Aggregation of Reasoning:A Hierarchical Framework for Enhancing Answer Selection (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why? (theguardian.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | theguardian.com | newest

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Rishi Sunak apologizes as full scale of infected blood scandal revealed (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Ask HN: Why does HN flag nearly all posts related to Covid or mRNA vaccines?

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ycombinator.com | newest

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NIH Director tells Congress that Gain of Function research was funded at WIV (msn.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | msn.com | frontpage

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The U.S. Is Easing Marijuana Restrictions with Schedule 3 Classification (nytimes.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Vladimir Putin and Xi vow cooperation against 'destructive and hostile' US (ft.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ft.com | newest

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Thinking Tokens for Language Modeling (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | frontpage

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Free Summer School:Understanding LLM Understanding-Wolfram, Chalmers, Levin,etc. (skywritingspress.ca)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | skywritingspress.ca | newest

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Estimate of the Covid-19 over-reporting bias as underlying cause of death in US (researchgate.net)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | researchgate.net | newest

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Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI (twitter.com/janleike)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | twitter.com | best

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DOJ says Boeing broke deal that avoided prosecution after 2 fatal 737Max crashes (npr.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | npr.org | newest

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Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck (al.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | al.com | best

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Recovery Potential in Patients Who Died After Withdrawal of Life-Support (liebertpub.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | liebertpub.com | newest

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Bloodlines of Illuminati [pdf] (cia.gov)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | cia.gov | newest

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U.S. maps of atrazine use and predicted concentrations in groundwater (usgs.gov)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | usgs.gov | newest

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Jump Seating United Pilot Causes Drama at Southwest (onemileatatime.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | onemileatatime.com | frontpage

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A Hearing with the President of EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Peter Daszak (house.gov)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | house.gov | newest

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Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU, is widely used in US (usrtk.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | usrtk.org | best

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The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food: What Our Tests Found (consumerreports.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | consumerreports.org | best

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Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations? (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | best

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Zantac's Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | bloomberg.com | newest

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Pfizer agrees to settle more than 10k Zantac cancer lawsuits (chicagotribune.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | chicagotribune.com | newest

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Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps (gizmodo.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | gizmodo.com | best

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Revolving doors: Industry and the FDA chiefs responsible for regulating industry (bmj.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | bmj.com | newest

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The Little Dutch Boy Who Saved Holland (drboli.wordpress.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wordpress.com | newest

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FTX Is the Rare Financial Blowup That Will Repay Victims in Full (wsj.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wsj.com | newest

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Scientists determine disorder improves lithium-ion battery life (techxplore.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | techxplore.com | newest

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Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations (nature.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | nature.com | newest

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Increased Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality After Third mRNA Vaccine Dose in Japan (cureus.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | cureus.com | frontpage

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Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to life on Earth (nature.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | nature.com | frontpage

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Code Interpreter base classes with state in Python (python.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | python.org | newest

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Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization (huggingface.co)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | huggingface.co | newest

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Extending Llama-3's Context Ten-Fold Overnight (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Gonzalo Lira (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wikipedia.org | newest

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Non-planar 3D printing in a modern slicer thanks to the community [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | youtube.com | frontpage

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Iterative reasoning preference optimization (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | frontpage

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Leveraging Human Speech Processing for Automated Dog Bark Classification (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Benchmarking Benchmark Leakage in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Supreme Court Declines to Block Texas Porn Restriction (slashdot.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | slashdot.org | frontpage

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Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Models (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | best

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Benchmarking Mobile Device Control Agents Across Diverse Configurations (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Tunnel Try-On: Excavating Spatial-Temporal Tunnels for Virtual Try-On in Videos (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Ask HN: Are LLMs capable of unauditable inner dialogue?

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ycombinator.com | newest

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$20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Restaurants See Orders Plummet (newsweek.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | newsweek.com | newest

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Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | best

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Collective intelligence: Integrating biology across scales and substrates (nature.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | nature.com | newest

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Geoffrey Hinton: Open sourcing AI models akin to open sourcing nuclear weapons (twitter.com/ygrowthco)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | twitter.com | frontpage

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CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred (consumerfinance.gov)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | consumerfinance.gov | best

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Assistants API Update: retrieval for up to 10K files, token control, JSON, tools (platform.openai.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | openai.com | newest

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AT&T – 1993 "You Will" Ad Campaign [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | youtube.com | newest

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Depersonalization (wikipedia.org)

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Derealization (wikipedia.org)

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[flagged] Addiction Activists Say They're 'Reducing Harm' Locals Say They're Causing It (thefp.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | thefp.com | frontpage

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City of Brotherly Love needs tough love – not 'safe' drug use (nypost.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | nypost.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why does Google kill so many products users find valuable?

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ycombinator.com | newest

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Attractive Faces Are Only Average (1990) (sagepub.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | sagepub.com | newest

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Rubik's Cube Solution (2003) (chessandpoker.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | chessandpoker.com | newest

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From Words to Numbers:Models Capable of Regression When Given InContext Examples (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Smart vest turns fish into underwater spies (phys.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | phys.org | newest

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Chemical Plants Must Curb Ethylene Oxide, Chloroprene Emissions Under EPA Ruling (wsj.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Physics of Language Models: Part 3.3, Knowledge Capacity Scaling Laws (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Stream of Search: Learning to Search in Language (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | arxiv.org | newest

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Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024 (home.cern)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | home.cern | newest

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Birmingham cyberattack leaves police unable to run warrants;some officers unpaid (al.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | al.com | newest

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A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022) (npr.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | npr.org | best

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Nirmatrelvir for Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Adult Outpatients with Covid-19 (nejm.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | nejm.org | newest

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Covid-19 Rebound After VV116 vs. Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir Treatment (jamanetwork.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | jamanetwork.com | newest

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The deceptive patterns of Network Solutions (coywolf.news)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | coywolf.news | newest

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Show HN: Command Line Data Aggregation Tool for LLM Ingestion (github.com/jimmc414)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | github.com | newest

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Planck's Principle (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Net's Master Data-miner (2004) (vanityfair.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | vanityfair.com | newest

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Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit (reuters.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | reuters.com | best

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A month into ransomware attack, Birmingham city reverts to paper for payroll (govtech.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | govtech.com | newest

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S1 Spike Protein Persistence in Monocytes Post-Covid Vaccination (medrxiv.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | medrxiv.org | newest

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Total solar eclipse forecast looks cloudy for much of the path (mprnews.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | mprnews.org | newest

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Valles Marineris (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | wikipedia.org | newest

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Japanese gang figures got new livers at UCLA (2008) (latimes.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | latimes.com | newest

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Unexpected behavior from Claude 3 Opus when asked to deliver a secret message

a year ago | Jimmc414 | ycombinator.com | newest

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Landmark Study Confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is 'Unambiguously Biological' (sciencealert.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | sciencealert.com | newest

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2023 CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (mitre.org)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | mitre.org | newest

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OpenCV for Exoplanet Detection (hackster.io)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | hackster.io | newest

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Don't panic about stuff falling off United planes at SFO, experts say (sfstandard.com)

a year ago | Jimmc414 | sfstandard.com | newest