We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime(gds.blog.gov.uk)

548 points by sh_tomer 2 years ago | 189 comments

A GOV.UK Government Digital Service blog post describing how the team migrated a PostgreSQL database with only 11 seconds of downtime.

96% of climate policy since 1998 failed(alumni.ox.ac.uk)

52 points by debo_ 2 years ago | 43 comments

A New Raspberry Pi Imager(raspberrypi.com)

41 points by raus22 11 months ago | 12 comments

Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again(tomshardware.com)

96 points by fridek 1 year ago | 70 comments

Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better(ncsc.gov.uk)

20 points by ashergill 1 year ago | 25 comments

Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg(northvolt.com)

529 points by Phenomenit 2 years ago | 293 comments

Northvolt press article announcing its sodium-ion battery cell validated at 160 Wh/kg energy density.

Climate Change Tracker(climatechangetracker.org)

374 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 192 comments

Climate Change Tracker is a website with dashboards tracking global warming, CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions, plus IPCC-based indicators for policy makers.

Weather forecasts have become more accurate(ourworldindata.org)

332 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 178 comments

Our World in Data article by Hannah Ritchie on how weather forecasts have grown more accurate and the need to make them available globally.

Global warming will breach 1.5°C – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back(news.un.org)

8 points by DeepLogin 5 days ago | 1 comments

UN News article reporting that global warming will exceed the 1.5°C limit but that deep, rapid emissions cuts could bring temperatures back down.

When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough(coveringclimatenow.org)

10 points by robtherobber 3 days ago | 0 comments

Covering Climate Now newsletter article highlighting a Reuters investigation proposing the term "heat storms" for massive, cascading heatwaves, plus climate news roundup.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.