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Agreed, one of my great pleasures during COVID when I had terrible insomnia and couldn't sleep was to cycle down to Billingsgate in the morning and eat one of the fantastic bacon and scallop rolls from the cafe in the market. Definitely going to miss the place.

The candidate in question is Count Binface - who is part of a long British political tradition of joke candidates.

Safe to say I think the implementation details of this policy probably aren't needed.

https://www.countbinface.com/2024-manifesto

The closer to midnight on a day you submit a paper to the arxiv the closer to the top of the "new" list you are the next day.

I assume they submitted at 23:59 and were aiming for 00:00

How would you go about handing a lost device with this? A passkey reset email which would have a link that you could use to register a new device?

Unlikely, dead dark stars being dark matter candidates is a theory known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects)

If they exist we would expect to detect them as they pass between another star and earth creating a gravitational lens. You can estimate the number of these MACHOs by looking at a bunch of stars for a long period of time and counting the number of microlensing events you see.

A team did this in 2000 and found that while there were some events, there weren't enough to explain all of the dark matter around the Milky Way. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001272

In many cases the status page of a service is an unreliable indicator (e.g. AWS's) so I find HN / Twitter to be a much better signal that an incident that affects many people is happening.

In that in the browser you are able to see that you have gotten a 301/302 response but can't see where the redirect would have sent you.

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Black Cow vodka in the UK have been doing this for a while as well. It's got a fuller texture than some other vodkas but is generally really tasty.

https://www.blackcow.co.uk/

> In the early days I knew Uber drivers who use to be cab drivers who claimed they made a ton more money than with their cab company. I doubt that's as true anymore

As (one piece of anecdotal) evidence, I was talking with a guy that drives for both Uber and a local cab company. The cab company pays more, but he still prefers driving for Uber as he is put in far fewer sketchy situations by them.

No, because the noise modeling test in the second LIGO detector (LIGO Hanford) was being wobbled at a very different frequency to that of the gravitational wave they were able to filter out the test motion and were still able to detect the merger.

If you can have a good estimate of the time it would take to do it then this xkcd is better source! https://xkcd.com/1205/

There is an alternative explanation for their off seasons proposed in this April fools arxiv paper

http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0445

Looks like the homeworks for this are not available.

Impressive stuff, I especially like the style transfer that can be done by using the global features of one image and the local features of another (Fig. 7)

What I find somewhat annoying is that whilst they show some examples from their validation set, and a couple of examples of the model failures. They don't appear to show a random selection of cases from their validation set.

Are you thinking of this project instead? http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/

Hacker News discussion from the original reddit post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4100032

It depends on the airport that you are travelling from. London City has famously fast security, currently you can check-in upto 15 minutes before the scheduled time of departure for a flight to New York. [1]

[1] http://www.londoncityairport.com/travelandbooking/page/check...

The data release contains the data converted to sound if you scroll to the bottom [1].

I don't think anyone has combined them as you suggest though!

[1] https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW150914/

In a very real way it was. There were two completely geographically separate instruments which recorded the same signal with a delay that is consistent with the light travel time between them.

In the future this will get better when VIRGO in Italy and KAGRA [2] in Japan come online. Then we will have 4 independent detectors which will be able to verify that same signal is observed at the same time.

Obviously of course given the transient nature of what is being observed once the merger has occurred it will very rapidly stop producing gravitational waves so we will not be able to measure the same event again.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_interferometer

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAGRA

Part of the reason for that is that LIGO isn't exactly a Michaelson interferometer in that it has an extra pair of mirrors in each arm. If you look at this schematic [1] then in a traditional Michaelson interferometer you would only have the mirrors that are at the end of both arms.

With LIGO there is an extra set of mirrors within the arms this allows the light from the laser to bounce between them ~100 times or so increasing the effective path length greatly.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/colwell/rc03_ligo/img009.j...

I assume that it is because QuickTime is using your GPU to decode the h.264 but VLC isn't.

There is support for hardware accelerated h.264 decoding in VLC; you just need to enable it. I think the option is in Input and Codecs tab in the preferences.

Whilst that is true, it really all depends on the resistance of the thing that you are passing the current through.

Remember that P = I^2 R (i.e. power goes as the square of the current for a constant resistance)

so for an object of constant resistance then to double the current than you need 4 times the power.

Likewise with the "predictions" of the authors likes/dislikes. Testing how the model will perform on an independent data-set (or at least cross validation [1]) would be much more interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)

Not quite a burger but Tournedos Rossini [1] exists. This is a fillet steak topped with foie gras and served with black truffles.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournedos_Rossini

The Paper and all the figures are located here http://bicepkeck.org/

Just as a reason for doing this in parallel. Space based detectors (such as LISA) are sensitive to a different frequency range than ground based detectors such as LIGO and thus to different of astrophysical phenomena [1]

[1] http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~rhc26/sources/