skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> collision probability of 1.3 percent, with the two satellites coming as close as 190 feet (50m)

LEO orbits have speeds around 7.8 km/s (rounding up to ~8000m/s for quick calculations) - this avoidance detection is saying that the two satellites both traveling at 8000m/s would be in the same 50m box at the same second.

A quick calculation shows that the collision avoidance is operating at least the millisecond level to predict this collision (50m/(8000m/s) ~.005 seconds.

One thing someone once mentioned to me is that space is big and things travel fast. It's hard to believe that the two satellites (most likely each <1m in diameter) came "close" to colliding, when a half second later they would be 8000 meters apart.
> At least it can be programmed.

You say that as though it was an achievement.

Most smartwatches can be programmed. The pinetime is about the hardest one to develop for, with the least available resources.
This is caused in large part by the French economy and transportation needs largely being Paris-centric--the Paris metro is larger than the next 10 largest cities combined.

(Admittedly, a Bordeaux-Toulouse-Montpelier-Marseille-Nice connection in the south is probably a viable TGV route. But at a quick glance, that's probably the only viable non-via-Paris route I see.)
Even earlier didn’t they have different counting systems fo different items?

Like a brace of birds.
> On 7 June 1981, a flight of Israeli Air Force F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed the Osirak reactor deep inside Iraq.

Well, the fighter jets and weapons system platform (a pair of Mark-84 unguided bombs fitted to each aircraft) they used in those airstrikes were made by aerospace companies in the United States (General Dynamics and McDonnel Douglas), so I think American companies did have a role to play, however indirectly.

There's no denying Israel wouldn't exist today (at least not the form it presently exists) if not for the timely and generous support and assistance (militarily, monetarily and in spirit) from the United States of America -- just an observation!
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Here is fresh evidence (< 1 wk ago) that labs in Wuhan have worked on unpublished coronaviruses:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01533

The above findings are replicable by any bioinformatician operating on published sources.
This preprint was reviewed by one of the authors of the Human Genome Project’s landmark 2001 paper having served as an HGP sequencing team leader at the Whitehead Institute:

https://twitter.com/kevin_mckernan/status/137939900576396083...

The findings critically undermine Western zoonotic scientists’ (Daszak of the WHO-convened study particularly) claim that they knew what viruses WIV researchers were working on.
You can have a time system based around sunrise.

I mean with most clocks also being internet connected computers it wouldnt be too hard to make a system where you measure time in hours after average sunrise in a tike zone.

That is where I live right now it's sunrise +3.

I'll reschedule the daily 'standup' to SR+3.5, the banks open at SR+3 and close at SR+11.

One major consequence I can see is that now we have north south timezones on top of east west.

This would break in the extreme north or south where there are days without a sunrise.
So much so that that one might suspect Hyperloop was almost entirely "borrowed" from this idea, which is probably what OP meant to suggest. To be fair, the description of Planetran does note that the boring itself is the unusually hard part. Maybe Elon saw this at some point, figured the boring part was finally solvable (which explains why he made such a big deal about it), and decided to dust it off.
How come?

If the satellites collide close to 90 degree angle the horizontal velocity of some fragments can be more than 10 km/s and the orbit increases.
>Agreed, but we don't have access to this

We do have access to some info on this. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/nndm/instituti...

Institutional ownership increased by 21.7M shares in 2020, a roughly 8.27% increase in total shares held. Meaning the current institutional ownership almost all came from last year, and ARK lead that by a wide margin.
I'm an indie developer, so limited perspective for sure. Focusing on games and the consumer market.

The main issue I can see with VR is the same pattern that played out in mainstream PC gaming -- where 20% of the market takes the vast majority of the market's dollars. That means that the VR market can sustain far far less companies, even though games cost more and are primarily developed by indies.

I'll bet Half-Life: Alyx and Beat Saber took in more than a third of all money spent on VR last year, whereas everyone else is left competing for scraps.

If you make or find a game studio that is breaking into that upper category then you may be in a very comfortable position for the riding future growth.
> I don't doubt his honesty at all.

Neither do I. That the mark of a truly great con artist ;-)
The real take-away from this is that you have a _very_ competent cyber-actor (Iran) getting pancaked at will by an _extremely_ competent cyber-actor (Israel) in what one would presume to be one of it's most, _if not most_, cybersecure locations (Natanz).

Nation-states using cyber capabilities in this way, and the non-response it evokes, is reminiscent of how pre-WWI nation-states would conduct policy and international affairs with their armies.

It's something I wish the general public were more cognizant of. We need to openly talk about this type of power and conflict. Otherwise we're going to have another WWI-type moment, where it takes millions of people dying before we realize that the state of the game has changed because of new technologies.
Home, no t'has viscut mai à Catalunya. Per què difoneu aquestes mentides?

You've clearly never lived in Catalonia. Why are you spreading such bullshit?
If ebay did that, they might end up buying a whole lotta crap. This technique is not a money pit when information is available. I'm not clear on the information available to publishers, but I don't think its as clear as ebay. The legality is more subtle
“I know the old story about conditions being worse and avoiding turning your passion into your job/hell, but anyone able to chime in?”

I think you already know the general culture of the work you want to get involved in. VR projects are usually side projects and considered nice to have rather than need to have. There haven’t been “killer apps” recently which has driven massive adoption from industries with deep pockets such as infrastructure or transportation. As much as I respect media and entertainment, the pool of dollars are hotly contested. It better to work for other industries.
No major disagreement, but I will add this...

Eating too much, borrowing more money than you should, eating junk food, staying up too late, being addicted to your phone, texting whilst driving, perhaps these are all the same problem?

And like any animal, we need to be trained to control ourselves, when young, for our own good?
Ok, then we could assume the hypothesis: Either you sleep 8 hours and are productive or you go down to 5.5 because 6 wont increase your efficiency levels either.
Samsung Galaxy used to have something like this that was in the right direction, but I don’t know if they ever did anything with it.
>The pro-independence seats in parliament in Catalonia is a voter minority... in Catalonia. Check your math.

[citation needed]
> He has been described as "enigmatic", "mysterious", "revolutionary", "the greatest idealist of the world", and "the first individual in history"

I don't get it, why? "The first individual in history"?

Anyone has suggestions of where can I read more about him? :p
I used to regularly travel from Edmonton to Calgary for work. When you add up the extra time required for flying, it's about a three hour trip (45 minutes in the air, the rest is getting to the airport, checking in, etc). Coincidentally, it's also about a three hour drive.

My reasons for driving vs flying were usually to do with how long I'd be there. If I was going for one day then flying was preferable since falling asleep on the way home isn't a big deal. If I was going for multiple days then driving was preferable so that I'd have a car and be able to go places after finishing at the office. Flying was preferable in winter in case the roads were in bad shape. Driving was preferable on Fridays so that I could visit friends afterwards and come back the next day. Flying was preferable during the Calgary Stampede to avoid having to deal with the excess traffic in Calgary (plus WestJet did a cowboy-themed safety lecture during Stampede which was kind of neat).
The exact kind of thing interstate commerce law exists. And yet we instead fraudulently use it for the war on drugs and restricting what can be produced and sold in-state.
Delaware is not the only US state that has tuned its laws
to attract certain types of business and financial activity:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
Google's short-lived data advantage
Keep in mind that "cyber attack" can be a cover for other types of attack.

It creates this convenient image of "hackers press a button and things blow up" to divert attention away from the reality.

I wouldn't be so quick in believing it being a cyber attack.
Some States have comprehensive databases. Here's one for New Jersey: https://force.nj.com/
tom7 / suckerpinch is great, I love his "30 Weird Chess Algorithms" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA
My 2 cents:

import itertools

# this block is just for simple functional pipes
class B:
def __init__(self, f): self.f = f
class Pipe (B): __ror__ = lambda self, x: self.f(x)
class Map (B): __ror__ = lambda self, x: map (self.f, x)
class MapValues(B): __ror__ = lambda self, it: it | Map(lambda kv: (kv[0], self.f(kv[1])))

# here the actual FizzBuzz
(
range(1, 100)
| Map(lambda i: (i, itertools.compress(('Fizz', 'Buzz'), (i % 3 == 0, i % 5 == 0))))
| MapValues(''.join)
| Map(lambda kv: kv[1] or kv[0])
| Pipe(list)
)

[1, 2, 'Fizz', 4, 'Buzz', 'Fizz', 7, 8, 'Fizz', 'Buzz', 11, 'Fizz', 13, 14, 'FizzBuzz', 16, 17, ... ]

if you're interested in pipes like above - here my simple library for that (no install needed, just copy some lines)

https://github.com/tandav/pipe#fizzbuzz
2019 was the Year of VR.
The Case for Abolishing Patents (2012)
I’m curious to hear their new voice.
> What stops [tax havens] from continuing to have low corporate tax rates?

Nothing. But if Apple has $100B (out of $300B), as an example, in revenue in the US then the US gets to tax 1/3 of their income. If other countries decline to do likewise, well that's their choice. But tax havens are a scourge.

We've gone full Ayn Rand here where the people whose wealth was made possible by the stability and infrastructure in the countries they made that wealth in want to avoid at all costs paying for that stability and infrastructure. It's ludicrous and unsustainable.

Eliminating transfer pricing (both IP and non-IP) is a way of avoiding this race to the bottom as globally mobile capital perpetually moves chasing the lowest tax rates and short-term incentives.
I really hope this is different from what Paolo Macchiarini was doing, where it seems most patients later died. One of the biggest scandals in Sweden.
I cropped the part I care about before posting.
I don’t think this is a convincing argument. I don’t believe it’s good to allow third party tracking pixels on youtube.com (for instance) and the alternative way for buyside to get that data is ADH. It sucks compared to prior state for people who need to use it, but it’s necessary to provide user protection.
For me that makes it all the more interesting. I would assume that most of the people that work at those facilities are subject to intense security checks and surveillance.

Despite that someone is able to either convince or trick some of the workers to do something that comes at a huge personal risk. Human hacking is no less interesting than software/hardware hacking
Grafana and prometheus are a very nice combo for all sorts of monitoring. For my current setup I have added victoriametrics which is a drop-in replacement for prometheus. I like it more for home setup as it is easier on disk-space usage and the collection client (vmagent) does disk buffering. So I run the collection on a battery backupped raspberry pi which uses remote_write to send it to victoriametrics on my home server (which has a less higher uptime than the raspberry pi) without the risk of losing precious metrics.
Here's how I think the average joe sees things. Most people here may not fall into this category, but certainly know people who do:

A) Politicians only listen to money; even ones that are on your side; laws therefore are skewed towards those who have money.

B) Companies donate large sums of money to politicians; therefore they listen to companies.

C) Very rich individuals also donate large sums of money, but the average joe can't figure those names out on their own and will rely on rumor mills from social media, and media propaganda from his/her political tribe.

So people will get mad at companies first because they are more visible and the fact that it's more possible for a non-rich person to get people to stop spending money at a corporation than making a lawmaker do what you want.
Reminded of "What is the most sophisticated piece of software ever written?" on Quora.

Buckle in.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...
> build up their VR tolerance

Yeah, makes sense. But also is surprising: DVDs, video games, smart phones and other technologies with historically fast adoption did not require their users to brave physical discomfort to build up a tolerance.
>The fact it's not working means something's broke.

The brokenness usually comes from a diet high in overly processed food and refined sugar/starch, often coupled with little or no exercise.

Here's a paper relevant to the diet aspect:

Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake:

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(19)30248...

I believe a good way to un-break things is gaining an awareness of where the calories are coming from, together with a. lot. of moderate exercise.

The above has worked well for me, but it's no quick fix, and wouldn't sell books, tv programmes, or speaking engagements.

'Eat less, move more' is overly simplistic, it's more about how you eat less and how you move more, to help the body's set point to shift back to a healthy level.
These things weren’t exposed via the API.
Responding to your 2nd point, kind of and kind of not. It's not just that air->train is hard, it's also that air->air is easy. You don't pay the cost of an additional security check or the cost of an additional drive to the airport. Even with a train directly connecting to the airport, the flight option may come out ahead.
Agreed, but I like to avoid Cloud storage for personal data as much a possible... More than for privacy, for one day losing access to it for some reason.
To reiterate, it is very likely that those people who passed on you or didn't become interested due to the lack of self-marketing are not the people you would want to work with and doubly are not actually offering the job you thought you were applying for.

Grifters interview and hire grifters because their org/team/company relies on the grift more than the truth to make ends meet. If you can't grift, you frankly don't have the skills for that job. It's an unfortunate side-effect of the nature of grifting that they can't tell you this upfront.
> well developed corporate law and courts

To put this into context, the average time in 2020 for a civil case to go from filing all the way to an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court was 185.8 days; from submission to the Supreme Court, 32.8 days [1].

California’s courts don’t publish this information regularly, but the last time I checked, the comparable statistics were 3 years and one year.

[1] https://courts.delaware.gov/aoc/annualreports/fy20/doc/2020S... page 8
I can’t imagine having “shareholders” governing whether I’m allowed eat meat or not, or how much I should be exercising.

You’re reduced to a slave, with many masters instead of one.

No thank you.
Yes, it supports web apps: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-web-apps/.
I like your idea of forcing sites selling airline tickets to be honest about their cost and delays, but… after the fiasco of cookie-warning pop-ups, that’s a particularly promising can of worms.

> if you're already arriving or leaving on a long distance flight, the whole overhead of getting to/from/through the airport disappears

About connecting flights: most major French airports have a high-speed train (TGV) station for that reason. They typically have fewer trains than central stations, but they have good connections to nearby cities with small regional airports.
If you're thinking about strikes, airplanes also have their fair share of strikes in France.
The website fromrome2rio includes transfer times, wait times and costs too.
Yes, on a Mac and have multiple external hard drives for backup. It's not merely about saving space, I dislike the principle of "wasting".
« (And something like Bordeaux to Lyon needs to cross the Massif Central, which will significantly increase the cost of construction, which potentially makes it even less likely to happen.) »

Indeed. Currently by train, Bordeaux to Lyon would either go via Paris, or via Toulouse/Montpellier. Building train lines across the Massif Central doesn't really make economic sense due to the sparse population density.
> Most smartwatches can be programmed.

I am not aware of any other smartwatches where you can reflash the OS.
Certainly. And Czechoslovakia. ;)
How so? I can see their comment just fine, but I'm reading this on a 3rd party app.
See the regular Hohmann transfer [0]. Adding Δv at one point causes the orbit to become elliptic and will still pass through the same altitude, the yellow line in the picture. To increase the lower altitude, also called the periapsis, you need to add Δv higher up, which is the opposing side of the orbit for 100% efficiency and through that you create the circular red line.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Ho...
There is a new cyber study from HP and a UK Uni.

“We may be at far greater risk from the internet than was ever suspected,” Michail McGuire, senior lecturer of criminology, said. His new study of the nation-state cybersphere shows that we may be closer to advanced cyber conflict (cyberwar) than at any point since the inception of the internet.

I thought it was far fetched, but incident like this show it’s not.

https://press.hp.com/content/dam/sites/garage-press/press/pr...
Microsoft in Talks to Buy AI Firm Nuance Communications
America has an obesity epidemic. We can exist with less food.
Wouldn't both the perpetrator and the victim have to be in on that deception? Why would both parties go along with that?
The twist of Rokos Basilisk is that it is an info hazard: it only is dangerous if one knows about it. Like a dark cult of Cthulhu who only conjures the elder god so they have the mercy to be eaten first.

I think it is silly, but there are people anxious about it, which is not true about Pascals Wager.
And another in Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outside_the_Box
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

> The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship.

You'd hope that was done without the US's blessing...
Are there direct flights though?
Production in Dwarf Fortress plays with the same supply chain dynamics.

The spatial organization of the workshops, raw material stockpiles, output bins, consumption points, and transit time between them must be tuned, otherwise the settlement collapses. The settlement always collapses, but the extrapolation of entropy is almost the point (and entertainment) of the game.
Personally I enjoy having "more photos" along the way, they help bring me back in the memory. It's nice to remember details that our mind lost.
On something like this, I expect the "human hacking" to be much harder, and the "everything is broken" nature of computing to be nearly unchanged. So I expect it to be computer hacking at any place where it's possible, and human hacking only to run around theoretically unbeatable protections (like air-gaps).
They're already working with one political candidate:

https://pdap.atlassian.net/browse/PDAP-149
An issue I see is that the public data police departments put out is often only what they choose to, meaning any analysis of that data is potentially biased to an unknown degree. I suppose adding FOIA data into the mix could improve that, but doesn’t sound easy since those are usually delivered as PDFs.
> I'm actually fairly good at what I do, but If I mention that, it comes across as "arrogant," despite the enormous ocean of hubris that pretty much defines today's tech scene.

That's really insightful as I've definitely noticed many people judge by looks and impression more than the content of what's said. Unattractive/awkward people are frequently treated as insufferable when they are correct.
Peter Thiel on US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation
Your incredibly nuanced and substantive opinion is right up there with other world-shattering perspectives like “cancer is bad”. Not sure why you’re sharing it with me, though, since the person who referred to politicians as honest is one above me.

For future reference, the period is also known as a full stop from the days of the telegraph. So by typing a period at the end of your remarks, you’ve introduced a full stop and need not spell out another. When one says “full stop” aloud, they’re enunciating a period verbally to reinforce a point, which is why it’s a spoken idiom and not a written one (since full stops are a function of intonation in speech and not a written mark).
You're right, we should do nothing.
When we're discussing high salaries there should probably only be one 'A' in the initialism. Apple famously does not have particularly high salaries for engineers. Even if they're above industry average, they're nowhere near the Facebook/Google level.
The article doesn’t say but I have to think this is about commercial flights and not private aviation?
I've been tangentially looking at this as a 'beta' customer of Starlink, as the service is presently extremely variable with many small outages throughout the day. This kind of a collection of internet monitoring is super useful for the individual, but what I would really love to see is a way to federate the data in a meaningful way so that you can start to see operating patterns in the provider(s) being used.
That's a good point, didn't think of it... Might go back to keep highnres lol
And those are just the ones on wikipedia.
I think this heuristic is good, but specifically for identifying bad writing. You, me, and almost everyone here wants a straightforward account of what happened. The opening sentence is tone-deaf to what the readers want to learn.

Also, the phrase "one of the most" is almost always indicative of poor writing, even if it is far better than using a superlative.
Instead of working with user accounts, why not give the user the ability to create a link with a unique code? You can send that link to your SO who opens is and can start swiping. Makes the onboarding easier and it can be just a web app.