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"dalek" writes:In sports, it's been said that winning is everything, and if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. But for several decades, until 1947, winning wasn't important enough in baseball to justify signing the best players regardless of race. Although there was never a formal rule prohibiting American League (AL) and National League (NL) teams from signing Black players, no general manager was willing to do so. Many of the best Black players instead participated in the Negro leagues, which were professional baseball teams comprised of players who were unwelcome in the AL and NL due to segregation. Although Negro league players have long been included in the Baseball Hall of Fame, it was only in 2020 that Major League Baseball (MLB) formally recognized that the Negro leagues were major leagues, and were of the same quality as the NL and AL. Because of this, MLB decided that the statistical records from the Negro leagues should be merged into their own statistical records.The achievements of players and teams are often measured through their statistics. These include Henry Aaron hitting 755 career home runs, the 60 home runs Babe Ruth hit in the 1927 season, or Ted Williams being the last player to hit .400, with a batting average of .406 in the 1941 season. MLB's goal is to have a similarly accurate statistical record for the Negro leagues, things like how many home runs Josh Gibson hit, how many bases Cool Papa Bell stole, and Satchel Paige's earned run average during the prime of his career. Although a vast array of data is collected in modern professional baseball, statistics for a few games are missing as recently as the early 1970s. Incorporating Negro league statistics into the MLB historical record has been particularly challenging because the accounts of many of their games have been lost. The process of reconstructing the statistical records of Negro league teams has been somewhat like the search for lost Doctor Who episodes.AL and NL teams of the era played 154 game seasons, but Negro league seasons were much shorter, instead spending the rest of their time barnstorming. The practice of barnstorming originated because racism and Jim Crow laws forced Black baseball teams to play any willing opponent, and continued even after the more formalized structure of the Negro leagues in 1920. Unfortunately, records of barnstorming games are particularly difficult to find. Many newspapers only reported on home games, so records are incomplete. To the best extent possible, these games are reconstructed, often from reporting in newspapers with a primarily Black readership. In some cases, a box score might be available, providing somewhat detailed statistics from a game. In many other cases there is little more than a sentence or two in an old newspaper describing the outcome of a game, and many editions of these newspapers have not been preserved well. Sometimes descriptions of games and box scores can be found by searching online, but in many cases they can only be obtained from microfilm or actual old newspapers.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-leaves-openai-six-months-after-altman-ouster/

owl writes:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/real-id-deadline-will-never-arrive/678370/Archive link: https://archive.is/w2oC2

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hubie writes:Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites:

hubie writes:"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/big-three-carriers-pay-10m-to-settle-claims-of-false-unlimited-advertising/

upstart writes:Sherpa guide Kami Rita scales Mount Everest for 29th time, extending his own record again:

fliptop writes:Someday, some AI researcher will figure out how to separate the data and control paths. Until then, we're going to have to think carefully about using LLMs in potentially adversarial situations-like on the Internet:

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upstart writes:Neuralink's brain-chip implant malfunctioned, and the company reportedly considered removing it from its human patient:

upstart writes:New method could help high-score chasers trying to avoid game-ending crashes:

quietus writes:We all know what the problem is with the current crop of AR "glasses": bulky devices which cause you to discover all kinds of new and unknown neck muscles the longer you wear them.But ho-ho-ho. A team at Stanford University, Hong Kong University and NVIDIA now have worked something out, massively leaning on machine learning and scifi stuff called -- how unoriginal -- optical metasurfaces.Metasurfaces, in case you didn't know, are components engineered to bend light in unusual ways. Research on metasurfaces and other metamaterials has led to invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, heat, and other types of waves, among other discoveries. Whoa.In the boffins own words, they created

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/a-crushing-backlash-to-apples-new-ipad-ad/

quietus writes:As early as 1900, civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins predicted that by 2000 we would have such now-commonplace innovations as color photography, wireless telephones, and home televisions (and even TV dinners), among other things. Personally, I'm not really impressed -- my great-great-grandfather predicted we'd all eat meat from factories by now, and use the cows for transport instead -- and he wasn't even an engineer.But anyway. Based on that little factoid, a bunch of engineers has started ERVA, the Engineering Research Visionary Alliance.In a guest article on IEEE Spectrum, they claim that engineering these days means tinkering a bit on the edges. That's wrong. What we need -- dammit -- are bold visions of how to rebuild about everything. Engineers today need a different attitude: the mindset of the futurist.

looorg writes:"A leader of what was once the world's most harmful cyber crime group has been unmasked and sanctioned by the UK, US and Australia, following a National Crime Agency-led international disruption campaign."https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lockbit-leader-unmasked-and-sanctioned

An Anonymous Coward has submitted the following story:https://www.motortrend.com/features/gm-golden-1955-chevy-bel-air-found-mecum-auctions-indy-202470 years ago, General Motors worked out that they were coming up on 50 million cars, made over the corporate history. At the time GM was head and shoulders the biggest car company anywhere, making more than their USA competitors combined. Here's the story of the three gold plated commemorative '55 Bel Air Chevrolets that were built in late 1954, one being #50,000,000 and the other two for publicity use.All three have been lost or ruined in one way or another, but recently a replica has been built, using period correct parts, some even NOS (new old stock).

First Living Patient to Receive Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Dead at 62upstart writes:First living patient to receive genetically modified pig kidney dead at 62, weeks after historic transplant:

upstart writes:Researchers reveal complex communication patterns in sperm whales:

upstart writes:Nokia 3210 phone relaunched for 25th anniversary - and yes, there's Snake:

Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspectionsDannyB writes:Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspectionsFAA examining whether employees may have falsified records after firm said it might not have properly carried out checks

DannyB writes:Why do most mammals have 5 fingers?The simple question of "why five" has puzzled scientists from multiple fields, and the answer still isn't entirely clear.

owl writes:https://www.ifixit.com/News/95078/lpcamm2-memory-is-finally-here

DannyB writes:Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animation (video)"If you have the choice, you want to fall into a supermassive black hole."

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/pokemon-go-players-are-altering-public-map-data-to-catch-rare-pokemon/

upstart writes:U.S. National Science Foundation suspends UTEP's aerospace grant - KVIA:

anubi writes:[Editor's Comment: I am not sure of the credibility, neutrality or origin of the source material.]https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64444

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/

liar writes:https://gizmodo.com/nasa-pulsed-plasma-rocket-advanced-concept-mars-1851463831

looorg writes:Someone purchased the eight year old Cheyenne supercomputer for $480k. Failing hardware. Leaking water system. What would it be good for? Selling for parts would flood the market. Testing the parts would take forever. They also have to pay for transport from it's current location. Originally built by SGI.https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996

upstart writes:Gene Therapy Restored Hearing in Deaf Child: [Paywalled in some regions]

fliptop writes:More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/fcc-explicitly-prohibits-fast-lanes-closing-possible-net-neutrality-loophole/

Three of our community had sent in submissions regarding the solar storms expected to arrive over the weekend. Auroras, weather permitting, will be visible over much of the northern hemisphere. For those of you who like to see such things, or for those of you looking for something different to do, why not get outside and take a look:Updated flare status"dalek" writes:For the first time since October 2003, G5 conditions have been observed. This is described as an extreme geomagnetic storm and is the highest level on NOAA's scale for geomagnetic storms. In addition to reaching G5 conditions, an S2-level solar radiation storm was observed today, and HF radio blackouts at the R3-level have occurred multiple times.If you're hoping to see auroras, NOAA provides real-time short-range ~30-60 minute forecasts of auroral activity in both the northern and southern hemispheres. There is also a separate dashboard for monitoring disruptions to HF radio.Solar storms incoming this weekendc0lo writes:Earth prepares for solar storm impact from three CMEs this weekend

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upstart writes:The next Swiss Army Knife won't have a knife:

upstart writes:Nintendo says announcement on Switch successor 'this fiscal year':

owl writes:https://adamjones.me/blog/dont-use-contact-forms/

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/environment/plastic-embedded-bacteria-spores-degradable-tougher/

fliptop writes:The TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers:

NotSanguine writes:A press release from Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) details findings based on data collected by the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity roverFrom the press release:

taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-australian-ultrasonic-cold-brew-coffee.html

liar writes:https://gizmodo.com/new-fusion-record-achieved-tungsten-encased-reactor-1851457745

upstart writes:The threat is potentially grave because it could be used in supply-chain attacks:

upstart writes:SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 2 satellites on record-tying 20th flight (video):

owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2024/04/intel-8088-bus-state-machine.html

upstart writes:Axon Wants Its Body Cameras To Start Writing Officers' Reports For Them:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-05-lego-bumblebees-reveal-insect-collaboration.html