skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of encounters are thousands of meters per second relative velocity. There is enough energy in this to smash a satellite pretty good, even if it encounters one of the thousands of pieces of relatively small debris.

If two objects have a close approach once today, this means they will likely have another in the future due to the nature of orbits.

The visualizations are done this way because there is no way to draw everything to scale and have them be visible.

Planes move slower and still have midair commissions.

Maybe the amount of press it gets is too high for you, but it is a real concern for satellite operators. The amount of media attention given to celebrities is the real problem.
I think of R as a programming language designed by people who’d heard about programming languages but never actually used one before. It’s great for ad-hoc analysis without having to think about production systems.
Not necessarily. China feels much closer than Russia to the US, and military deployments do reflect that as well.

While Russia is absolutely a major threat, the mutual feeling of danger that both China and the US have of each other dwarfs any supposed feeling about Russia.
It looks like Ada 2022 has a way to track at compile time whether functions block or not. Seems cool for async programming.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22over/html/Ov22-2-2.html
I never understood why one can't use the AppStore for free (as in $0) apps without an account. There's IMHO no single reason as a user zo have an account to fetch free apps.
Because Candy Crush relies upon being an impulse purchase. If people had to go through five steps to buy it a ton of people would abandon it.

That isn’t the same for every app. There are plenty of apps folks would be happy to go out of their way to purchase because they provide a ton of value. But the developers are not allowed to.

Again: my argument here is choice. Let developers decide. Your counter is “but one of them is better”. You’re entitled to your opinion but that isn’t a counter argument to letting developers choose what type of payment system they want to use. Apple does not let developers do that and they should. There’s really not much more to the debate than that. If, as you argue, Apple’s ecosystem is better in all aspects then it will win out in a free market. What’s not to like?
In Finland sometimes we take advantage of the heat and we cook sausages on our sauna stove by wrapping them in aluminum foil and placing them on the hot rocks. You can still take a sauna normally and afterwards you have a cooked sausage to eat!
You don't need a Facebook account though, you can migrate to a Meta account which can be optionally linked to Facebook and Instagram only if you choose.
Not the one you asked, but I like to sauna in perfectly dry air more than in humidity. Also slightly lower temperature. As there is no humidity, the heat doesn't transfer as quickly. The phone doesn't get hotter than it does on a sunny day outside.
According to the artist himself, this video is a bit misleading as the majority of what you hear in this video is not from the machine. There were some fundamental flaws in the first designs, he almost gave up on the whole project, but he's recently come back with plans for a whole new version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI

He's very open about the whole process, it's quite interesting from an engineering perspective.

Designing the marble divider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo

Testing the new fly wheel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouH21npL58
Is it fair to say it is easier to detect planets in other solar systems?
Internet & Empires – Lauren Weinstein's Talk @ Google (2006) [video]
Mentions: ARPANET, Don't Be Evil, full take of Google search queries, National Security Letters (NSLs), Yahoo disclosing information leading to potential arrest of a Chinese dissident, Internet Archive, legal discovery/security/accessibility of emails on third party servers such as Gmail, Google Print/Google Book search and copyright, RIAA/MPAA and piracy, file sharing and P2P, analog hole, DRM.
If you enjoy Wintergatan’s clever marble videos, check out Ivan Miranda’s marble clock project: https://youtu.be/JLD_Nl12oac. Ivan relies on 3d printing vs. Martin’s emphasis on machining and welding, but they are both charming and instructive creators.
Software created by user-hostile organization is normally best on the environments where they have the least permissions.
I thought it was clever not to create a Microsoft account on my laptop. Turned out bitlocker was active (by an update, I don’t know, I never activated it manually). Motherboard fails, no key backup on the Microsoft account I did not have. Backup were corrupted, some data loss occurred…
Drupal is way more similar to Laravel these days (Drupal is now also built on top of Symfony) than WordPress.
> which in practice means a church strictly subservient to the government under which it operates.

partly so - in this world, among the worldly ways, the temporal ruler has authority. However, the bargain is.. at birth, at death, in times of great peril, or any day when there are hungry, poor, afflicted, ill or outcast citizens (every day in other words) the temporal ruler has agreed to acknowledge One God (not the person ruling) and implement the words of the Christian canon .. to attend to those who are needy, sanctify marriage, watch over the helpless and bring food and medicine to those that need it.

In the modern times of post-industrial plenty, these crucial agreements are often overlooked. Yet this is how civilization grew from the barbarian times in the Western world.
It is no longer a requirement, but there is a significant amount of amateur spectrum where CW (morse) is the preferred or only permitted modulation.
I still don't want to get the flu :(

I wish we could have a culture of "wear a (good) mask when you're sick". I don't think I'm going to die from the Flu or Covid, but it is going to make life miserable for awhile.
Over the past 40 years, we've had a series of presidents and state/local leaders who are allergic to spending the money necessary to solve social problems.

You aren't going to solve mental health and drug addiction without spending money on treatment. You aren't going to solve crime without both spending money to arrest, prosecute and imprison the criminals in prisons that actually rehabilitate criminals AND spending money to address the root causes of crime such as poverty and poor education.

None of this is particularly appealing to politicians when there are corporations that you can give taxpayer-funded handouts to in exchange for campaign donations and help building your personal fortune. If the problems aren't solved, you can just blame everything on the other political party (even if they haven't won an election in your area since before WW2) or the politicians who came before you.
The CDC is saying it's okay to infect other people because pretty much everyone on earth has already been infected with the novel sars-cov-2 virus and taken their risk already with the first infection. Anyone that would have bad outcomes has died or been taken out of productive life so they don't matter. And the rare few of us that have still avoided any exposure to sars-cov-2 virus in our upper respiratory mucosal immune compartment don't matter because we are so few and the humoral immune compartment is protected by intramuscular vaccination.

A very pragmatic position but not one that has much to do with the science of sars-cov-2 shed duration or infective window.
I like OpenAI ChatGPT and Tesla autopilot (not FSD).
I don't get on discord programming groups to save the world. I get on there to interact with people (mostly rust based topics) and help them if I can, I'm certainly no guru, but I can help beginners and intermediate programmers. If there comes another popular open source group, then I'll choose it over the discord platform. I try to be a good Samaritan, but open source isn't a religion for me and not something I'm going give up major portions of my life just to reach out and help some people (matrix setup was a few pages long and needs a static IP and domain purchased).
Two objects at the same inclination can still have very high relative velocity if on different planes.
The DeepMind paper in turn cites the authors of this paper, previously. One of the big differences in the current paper is that the experimental device is much larger and more powerful, and the duration of the shot is longer as well.
Not John Wick perhaps, but a radar controlled machine gun
So what if they’re an iPhone user? The topic at hand is about legislation coming from outside the Apple ecosystem. It doesn’t matter if it’s Android or a politician.

The rest of your post reads like you just have a general deep seated disdain for Apple users.
since you specified a category, that appears to validate my assertions about targeting and wealthy.

thank you my friend.
But nobody wants to work for META? Right! Surely not, I don't believe it.

So it's really a negative filter question? But they will find your comment, and now mine. Hilarious.

If you came here by accident, please do not work for META, do some good in the world instead.
How startups beat incumbents
At least in our sauna even in dry air my phone overheats and shuts down.
I think Pichai was a terrible CEO, but IMHO, changing the CEO is not going to fix anything. Google has serious culture issues and structural management problems.

To turn the ship around they should restructure hard and get rid of the cancer. Re-focus on merit and clear goals.

I seriously doubt they have the guts to do restructure. On one hand, Page and Brin probably don't want to risk rocking the boat (having dominant voting shares) and are often at each other's throat. On the other hand, advertisers and government agencies have a lot of leverage for Google to stay the course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Heil

He was also the organist on the Mighty Wurlitzer for the Fox Theatre in St Louis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)
It is no longer a license requirement.

It is still used for casual contacts by people that enjoy it. It is used for various things that fall under the banner of "radiosport" -- for my part I enjoy Morse-code-only radio contests. It is used for identification beacons for repeaters or propagation beacons. And for radio experimenters, a Morse code transmitter makes a great first project since it is so simple and is foundational to everything that comes after it. Pretty much any transmitter that you build is just extra stuff on top of a Morse code transmitter in one form or another.

Morse code has a distinct signal-to-noise ratio advantage over any other simple modulation scheme, since the receiving filter can be so narrow, and 100% of the power is going into the carrier any time you are key-down. This is why Morse code is good for propagation beacons and also for other experiments. There are, of course, modern error-correcting codes that beat it, but then both the transmission and reception become much more complex. (See FT8 for a currently popular weak-signal mode).

I view Morse code radio contests much like a sail boat racing. Nobody moves containers of goods from China to LA on sail boats. But lots of people enjoy a good boat race on a sunny afternoon, and enjoy keeping the old marlin-spike seamanship skills alive. Likewise, ftp is a much smarter way to move a 3GB file from London to SF than using Morse code, but that doesn't mean that Morse code isn't good humor during a weekend radio contest.
They already have German Gepards with 35 × 228 mm radar guided auto-cannons to shoot down the Iranian Shahed drones, but those drones are much larger and easier to shoot down since they're 3.5m (11 ft) by 2.5m (8.2 ft), plus they cost almost $200k a pop.

Using multi milion euro tracked vehicles firing expensive 35 × 228 mm ammo to shoot down drones the size of a Starbucks Venti costing less than and Apple Vision Pro is like using your AR-15 to shoot mosquitos. While I'm sure someone in Florida has already attempted that, it's the definition of asymmetric warfare.
This actually made me think of it in this opposite way: wouldn’t a better posture be to elevate other contagious diseases to the level at which we treated COVID? My takeaway from the pandemic is that this is likely a recurring event. Reverting to a more relaxed posture doesn’t line up with normalizing everyday practices to reduce spread of disease overall.
i have been using Ente for a few years now and totally love/recommend it
I'll admit, I only read the abstract so far, but from that, the paper seems confusing. I expected some sort of jailbreak where harmful prompts are encoded in ASCII Art and the LLMs somehow still pick it up.

But the abstract says, the jailbreak rests on the fact that LLMs don't understand ASCII Art. How does that work?
Exactly this. I had COVID two years ago, the flu last year, and COVID again a couple months ago. Last year's flu was absolutely miserable; just as bad as COVID was the first time around.

I really don't want either one. Putting a piece of cloth on your face when you are/recently were sick really isn't much of a burden. I did.
Just guessing, but....

A common noise cancellation technique is to throw away small eigenvalues, as in PCA. This result relates eigenvalues to the structure of the matrix, so might be helpful for reducing ev's without bothering with diagonalization?

[Edit] This would presumably involve just zeroing out the rows with small diagonal elements and small-ish off-diagonal norm... Center the eigenvalue estimate disk at zero, and then zero out the rest of the row to make the estimate exact.
You are 100% on the mark.

I really loved his series building the second one, but when he decided that it was fundamentally flawed and he needed to rebuild from scratch, I stopped watching in frustration.

He's really talented, but I'm just... sad for him.
Seems sad that the first thing I thought was "bet that would be hard to shoot down" - not sure if that's more of a reflection of me, or the state of affairs. That aside, if you'd told me when I was a teenager in the 90s that a fancy RC helicopter would go faster than an F1 car before I'm even an old man, not sure if I would have believed you, we've come a hell of a long way in drone tech - and that's impressive. Kudos to you drone engineer folks.
What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
Ah, so like the "phase" of the inclination? orbital plane being a vector quantity (angle between the Earth's rotational axis and the normal vector of the satellite's orbital plane)
Asian elephants mourn, bury their dead calves: Study
Oh, thanks. That does solve the issue.
It’s interesting, but I’m curious if they’re ever going to target higher end cameras from the likes of dahua. Those cameras are all Linux based and most have serial headers so it should be doable.
US Digital Service and 18F have done a huge service by normalizing the ability for agencies to say, "Heh, this sucks, but we're going to make it better." That safety is half the battle, otherwise there is no incentive for stakeholders to put their guard down and collaborate on a cohesive solution ("bureaucracy hacking").

Building trust and relationships is an underrated component of these transformation efforts.
Does it really have a lot of military applications ?

I presume weight is heavily optimized to get 300kmph. So it won’t go that fast if it carries explosives. Could be used for high value target killing. Like literally a bullet you can control, might be able to make that work.

But for reconnaissance can’t the drone just go high up ? And then can’t really be shot down with a rifle ? You just need better optics.
Sigh, when scientists do a good job that [uncharitable word deleted] like you end up saying "see, it wasn't a big deal!".

A bit like Y2K...
Whadda u use multi caret for?
This looks great - thank you so much for opening up the server too!

About auth, I'm not sure the claim in the readme is entirely correct:

> Two years ago, while building Ente Photos, we realized that there was no open source end-to-end encrypted authenticator app.

Surely bitwarden existed and had 2fa support two years ago? Granted it's not only an authenticator app...

Ed:[I guess 2fa is/was a pay-only feature, so only source-available?
]

Looks like auth is a great dedicated 2fa app by the way, surprised I've not come across it before.
The KamilaLisp repository contains a version of ABCL (Armed Bear Common Lisp for Java) and of Fricas (a computer algebra system written in CL).

What are those used for?
Tesla cars do not have a database of mapped roads. Every road is new to the car every time you drive down it. The Tesla self-driving system is incapable of learning on its own. Also they don't produce a persistent 3D representation of the surroundings, in fact every loop in their vision system they throw away the old representation and rebuilds it. This is why everything jitters when you look at the display which represents what the car sees. It's also it's fallacy, and why Tesla will be left in the dust soon enough.
If nothing else, Oregon needs to clean up the streets so we don't have degenerate drug users camping out in tents (in big cities) and in RVs (everywhere else) getting high in public. That would be a great start.

While Georgia had a problem with new sole proprietor LLCs popping up in 2020-2021 getting PPP loans for Hellcats and crab legs by the hundreds, Oregon had the same but for RVs and fentanyl. We have deep and serious addictions that have been allowed to fester in public and we need to clean it up.

Anything that shakes people up and interrupts their drug addled slumber is a good start. By increasing the penalties for those who are clearly out of control, police will be able to arrest and prosecutors will have legitimate targets again. None of this is perfect but nobody is doing anything right now.

Measure 110 allowed for decriminalization but as a society we in Oregon don't have enough stigma against drug use and we don't have the corollary treatment programs, both of which are necessary to get Portugal-like results in decriminalization. Even Portugal is losing stigma against drug use, and considering increasing criminal penalties due to similar problems. The shining star of Western decriminalization is tarnished by human nature.
I think that trying to secure funding by extorting your government with threats to intelligence assets is not just a bad business plan but a poor life choice.
Classic tragedy of the commons and hypercompetitive destructive incentives which hurt everyone in the end, sort of like this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRz54V7rU4U
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I have 6 years of work experience with webdev and rich-text but I've come interested in learning Rust. During the past 1.5 years I've taught myself the basics and programmed a game engine (with a friend) in Rust with multiplayer (Rapier, tokio, axum, Flutter) as well as websocket server for collaborative editing.

I'd consider myself moderately skilled in getting stuff done with Rust but there's still a lot to learn about the intricacies of memory management and general best practises. So I'm looking for opportunities where I could write Rust with perhaps some webdev on the side.
If they don't, the new hire goes to another company that does.

Here is another, but related question: why don't long time employees look for a better paying opportunity?
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -George Orwell, 1984

"safety" in the AI world is just "the party" having full control over the flow of information to the masses. there is no difference between AI "safety" and book burning.
I’m not a zero COVID person and just got on to living my life as normal after the acute pandemic, but about a year in I started developing autoimmune symptoms I’m still struggling to figure out. There’s a chance I was always going to develop it, but I definitely wonder about long term COVID dysfunction.

First I had muscle spasms and twitches, then intermittent joint pain, trouble sleeping, hives on occasion while running, now exocrine pancreatic insufficiency that seems like it’s idiopathic (MRI is confirming today). I’m scared as hell and any attempt at diagnosis or treatment is a dead end or makes things worse.
are we going to start trying with more than whales? long overdue, but also at a point where there is a plausible chance of success.
This is an unhinged rant. Covid happened for one. Battery and part supply constraint happened as well.

25k is coming as they said. Tesla has no debt and a ton of cash and no real competition in thier segment.

None od this was true when musk was offered this package. Idk what younwould be upset about. The stock is up 10x since he was offered this package.
To be fair, the black death killed France's first demographic transition, China might have had 2, and it is possible that one happened during the golden age of Islam too (and we don't know nearly enough about mesoamerican natives).

Abundance of food, and local peace is clearly the common denominator for demographic transition. The reason it did not happen in continetal europe is the amount of warring that took place there.
Going through an airport last week was very jarring. Some people do wear mask. But they look healthy, they mostly don’t want to get sick. People coughing like crazy, looking visibly sick with tons of symptoms, none of them had mask.

If you know you’re sick, why not wear a mask? How hard it is really?
It still boggles my mind how we managed to make it so politicized. I mean, there's really no clear reason I can pinpoint.

I was wearing a mask early on in the SF Bay Area. Back when the health authorities were saying that there's nothing to worry about and that masks don't help anyway. I remember so many people giving me the stink eye for no reason. I guess my behavior was the "anti-science", tinfoil-hat stance back then.

Then it all flipped on its head pretty much overnight. And when later, having been vaccinated and having had COVID, I stopped wearing a mask out in the open, I remember the same people getting angry at that. But if you traveled 50 miles outside the SF Bay Area, the reactions were exactly the opposite.

It just bugs me so much that we find ways to turn every single thing into a culture war. We go out of our way to find reasons to lash out against others. I'm not sure if social media is the source of it, but it sure provides a positive feedback loop.
The students' critical thinking guide to science and astrology
I read on my iphone’s kindle app in saunas and steam rooms frequently. No problem.
> then I'll counter that GR explains that, gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, black holes,

That interpretation of GR assumes that Mercury isnt perturbed by some form of dark matter. Go back and redo all the equations with a dark matter that obeys the right rules before claiming that GR is a better explanation.
Funny, you two purport to agree, but the parent specifically requested a “good” mask (which can be effective, with the right training and protocols, which are almost never followed), and you advocate a “piece of cloth”, which is almost never effective. Two people agreeing in their advocacy for highly visible, yet ineffective, remedies.
Crypto is pretty bad internet cash
Except that it was a huge deal. There was nothing scientists could do for an year, it became one of the largest human killers, and crippled an unknown number of people.

And yet some people still deny it was dangerous. It's not the same situation of Y2K at all.