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The butterfly you've seen is a Diaethria species, also known as the "eighty-eights" for obvious reasons.

> environmental groups have already denounced the proclamation's potential to allow for high-rises in residential neighborhoods

That's not an "environmental group." They may call themselves that, but there's no need for journalists to credulously repeat it. There is no "environmental" argument for preventing new residential buildings, even tall ones, from being built in existing urban residential neighborhoods. To protect the environment this is even necessary. I hope there are some real environmental orgs in Hawaii fighting back against greenfield development by supporting urban infill.

This bill needs 21 votes to pass. It got 18 this afternoon, and its last chance is tomorrow.

Here is a list of senators that did not vote and the districts they represent: https://twitter.com/aceckhouse/status/1222676578708021251

Definitely definitely worth calling if you live in one of those districts, and encouraging friends and family to do so if they live there too!

Unlike what the headline suggests, and how I'm sure this will be spun, the main reason for this was cost. San Francisco has some of the most expensive hotel inventory in the country.

Perhaps this is related to the very low number of hotel rooms in San Francisco -- 1/3 the number that exist in Atlanta, and 1/2 of the number in Phoenix. San Francisco makes it as hard as possible to add new inventory to this market.

Have you played Depression Quest? http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html

Taxes on vehicles and gasoline do not remotely cover the costs of road construction, let alone the costs of urban parking. Private vehicles are intensely subsidized.

Well this is a pretty heartless way to refer to a disaster involving 188 people. (Title currently: "Lion Air's brand new Boeing 737 MAX8 crashes into sea")

The 747 upper deck was United's best business-class product by far. Shame to see it go.

Totally. If you can make instant coffee that tastes even okay, it would be revolutionary for backpacking.

Coffee is the most important thing my partner and I check to make sure we have before we enter the backcountry. And it's always instant, not out of preference or cost concerns, but weight.

"When we started the training process, many of us thought that the “fingerprint” feature described above would be the “silver bullet” that would crack the problem for us. We were surprised to note that this wasn’t the case at all — in fact, it was features based on the dispersion of parking locations that turned out to be one of the most powerful predictors of parking difficulty."

I assume dispersion of parking locations is the distance from parking location to destination? I would have liked to see more about what kinds of inputs they used and how they cleaned them up to account for the confounding factors they mention (public transit users, private parking.)

To be clear, this article is about gravity waves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave), or ripples at the interface of two media of different densities caused by gravity, such as waves on the ocean or ridges of clouds, not gravitational waves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave), the propagating ripples in spacetime.

Flickr's resized images have a characteristically (over)sharpened appearance.

Shitty third party USB-C adapter throwing off all kinds of RF.

You can compare these with some early 20th century routes from London to Australia, which had dozens of stops:

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/iaw35aus/ia... https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--M9zDODc...

That's a really clever solution to a unique set of domain specific constraints!

I coded a little thing for myself to do this a couple years ago: http://subject.space/postcards/4.html

I should update my sexy map finder: http://exclav.es/2016/05/20/sexy-maps/

I haven't heard of one, but this is a good idea!

Why on earth would they distribute this without a trained model? Several weeks of training time on a multi-thousand dollar piece of specialized hardware are required to actually run this.

Google clearly has many different trained versions of this network sitting around. It must have been a conscious decision not to release them. Is the point to artificially create a barrier to entry for hobbyists that might want to apply this research? If so, why bother releasing it at all? I'm really scratching my head here.

> Researchers at the University of Manchester, in England, have gone a step beyond mirrors and fashioned an immersive virtual-reality system for treating patients with phantom-limb pain. Detectors transpose movement of real limbs into a virtual world where patients feel they are actually moving, stretching, even playing a ballgame. So far, five patients have tried the system, and they have all experienced a reduction in pain.

Could be a pretty killer future VR/EEG (or are they using physical motion sensors configured to the "good" side of the body?) app.

Yes. It is coronary heart disease.

Yep, Planet Labs uses tiny satellites. Their resolution advantage is temporal, not spatial.

"According to Doctors Without Borders, which is critical of drug-pricing policies, it costs Gilead $100 to manufacture the 90 pills in the 12-week course."

Sounds more like a $1.11 pill to me. And it seems pretty straightforward to sell something at (a minimum) 90% margin and make money.

To filter out particles that aren't neutrinos, which would otherwise cause noise on the detector.

If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads