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by yk 5y ago
They don't plan to circulate the orbit, and instead the plan is to splash down in the Pacific after going 3/4th around the planet. So, I would call that suborbital.
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by yk 5y ago
The entire space reporting has the problem that simultaneously there is an established genre of fanboy fawning about space x, which is kinda unconnected to space x actually starting to disrupt space. Right now, it looks like one could save
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by yk 5y ago
> How sure are we that quantum computing will ever work? Up to 12 qubits or so. > Perhaps reality is actually only approximated by the wave function but reality is something else under the surface which means quantum computers may nee
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by yk 5y ago
People either have to work, creating load on GitHub, or waste their time elsewhere, creating load on HN and Slack.
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by yk 5y ago
There's an entire genre of articles which argue that computers can never do X, because X is ill defined. Thing is, half of the time X is only ill defined because the writer neglects to define X well, and for the other half, that the wr
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Intelligence, Complexity, and the Failed “Science” of IQ(seanamcclure.medium.com)
2 points by yk 5y ago|0 comments
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by yk 5y ago
I guess there needs to be some "design" involved in the process. So a python program determines the sequence of machine code instructions uniquely (given some assumptions of repeatable builds, or lets just say on a given computer
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by yk 5y ago
It's the kind of hack that survives a security audit. There is no leaked data or anything, it is just that afterwards the crypto works precisely as the standard intended.
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by yk 5y ago
Thing is, light-to-moderate drinking implies that nothing really bad happened in your live. Most of the people who have cancer either stop drinking or become heavy drinker. Same with a heart attack and so on. However, the reason we hear aga
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by yk 5y ago
No, in non-euclidean geometry we have a notion of tangent space, where we measure angles and that looks the same as usual flat space. That is, what is meant with smaller and smaller circles in the physics answer. So the difference between e
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by yk 5y ago
So, what would happen if I train a neural network to recreate Disney movies?
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by yk 5y ago
Using a neural network to complete lost parts of a canonical masterpiece reminds me of nothing as much as using some kind of necromancer to ask the spirit of the artists to complete the picture. And of course depending on the quality of the
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by yk 5y ago
Slightly off topic, but it is quite interesting that US media very consistently uses "Pfizer" if the news is good and some variant of "Pfizer/Biontec" if the news is bad. The opposite holds of course for the German
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by yk 5y ago
That is, in 1700 my 5G contract would have costed $1 if I understand the description correctly?
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by yk 5y ago
Now I'm wondering about disrupting sleep for the techy crowd. Perhaps some kind of stand up bed.
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by yk 5y ago
If you look at the numbers, a decently hard shot has the ball travel faster than 20 m/s, so the ball is at the goal line 0.5 seconds after the shot. Now, that means the goalie has to travel at something like 7 m/s. For comparison,
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by yk 5y ago
> Roku requested exceptions that would break the YouTube experience and limit our ability to update YouTube in order to fix issues or add new features. I assume that is pr speak for, it would limit youtube in experiencing the app users?
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by yk 5y ago
From the abstract of Morton & al. which is one of the studies linked at the bottom: > The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident increased papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) incidence in surrounding regions, particularly for 131I-e
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Detergent DRM Defeated on Diminutive Dishwasher(hackaday.com)
5 points by yk 5y ago|0 comments
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by yk 6y ago
Yes and no. It is two very different experimental situations, the magnetic moment is at rest (well, in an accelerator but the rest frame is defined by the muon) and the R_k anomaly is in an collision. On the other hand, as a theorists the i
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by yk 6y ago
Yay, party like it's 2003 or so. When the SCO lawsuit unfolded I was always looking forward for the Friday afternoon threads on heise about the latest news about that suitcase.
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by yk 6y ago
Funny enough, Herodotus reports in 500 BCE that that is pretty much how Egyptians felt at the time about the pyramids. [Edit:] Corrected 1000 year off typo...
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by yk 6y ago
Considering there was a US backed coup, I have a hunch considering Kissingers realpolitik in this case.
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by yk 6y ago
It seems the tobacco industry had more luck with their scientific advisors.
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA(weforum.org)
205 points by yk 6y ago|252 comments
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by yk 6y ago
That would costs actual resources server side. My guess is, that their entire architecture is designed to do as much as possible on the clients, because otherwise they could not offer a free service.
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by yk 6y ago
So "Day after tomorrow" is the SF film that came true?
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by yk 6y ago
Apparently Lucas Arts was part of the sale of Lucas Film to Disney. https://screenrant.com/lucasfilm-movie-plan-lucasarts-advent...
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It Is Time, yet Again, to Beg for the Right to Repair(vice.com)
12 points by yk 6y ago|0 comments
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by yk 6y ago
I would guess that depends on how complicated the entire thing is, if they have ten possible solutions and get told to try the one that works first would certainly improve reaction times. However, that to me points to the larger problem, th

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