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I'm pretty sure that'll be the Soyuz capsule that Tim Peake flew to & from ISS on (Soyuz TMA-19M), hence the UK interest. I saw it on temporary display in Edinburgh before it went down to London for permanent display at the Science Museum.

The Soviets/Russians were still flying with analog tech on-board Soyuz until 2010 (TMA-M variant was the first "all digital" Soyuz). And of course, Soyuz is effectively "just" an upgraded Vostok/Sputnik/R-7. No parts in common between them anymore, but philosophically the same rocket design has been flying since 1957.

Wow, so I can drop the regimen of drugs my psychiatry team have developed over the course of a decade that made me able to function despite my extremely complex mental health needs. All I have to do is train myself to think thoughts that alter the gravitational field in my brain which will change my brain's immune system and I'll no longer be affected by fake disease? I'm sure some of her many books will help me.

Actively harmful psuedo-science crap. I'm astonished to see this being peddled on Hacker News. You should be disgusted with yourself.

At the moment. Ingenuity is in a compartment on the underside of the rover and will be released onto the surface before flying.

Presumably they'll move the rover away to a safe distance before flying.

Phase 1 of the landing used parachutes to bleed off speed, but they aren't able to slow it enough for a soft landing. So a Skycrane was used for the second phase / touching down.

The blades on Ingenuity are larger (relative to the rest of the vehicle) and spin much faster than would be required on Earth.

Same here, my first job out of university was network programming on embedded Linux and Beej's guide was an invaluable resource.

Not directly ICBM related, but the Arecibo telescope detected an ionospheric anomaly in the 1979 Vela incident [0], believed to be an undeclared nuclear weapons test.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

Have seen more than a few attempts to solve this problem. Here's my version[0] and there's many more on GitHub. Wonder if there's an opportunity to unify our efforts & get something into git contrib?

[0] - https://github.com/bobbo/git-profile

The article continues to talk about 6 out of 7 of the UK's nuclear plants going offline by 2030. Given how slow UK infx projects - especially nuclear projects - move, I'd be surprised if these were online by then.

Map, fold etc. are implemented on the `Iterator` trait.

  [1,2,3].iter().map(|x| x + 1)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html

Air New Zealand famously offered Antarctic sight-seeing flights in the late 70s. All stopped in 1979 when one of the planes crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, killing all 257 people on board.

I guess modern airliners make it safer but I was surprised to see them running today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster

Out of interest, why are you using a 10 year old OS that went out of support _7 years ago_? That must have horrible security implications, surely?

Given how pervasive Facebook tracking is, I'd bet on your pseudonymous account being linked to your shadow profile very quickly. There is no anonymity when Facebook is involved.

I'd also strongly object to moving the needle even the tiniest amount on Facebook's metrics. They wouldn't force users to do this unless it benefitted them; that's plenty enough reason for a lot of people.

Medium to long range aviation doesn't use ICEs, so no probably not. Aviation gas turbines have had efficiencies >50% for a decade already anyway.

It's not acceptable.

None of the apps broken on my phone require Facebook features for core functionality. Downtime happens, but downtime due to your non-essential & user-hostile ads/tracking/social SDK? These companies deserve every single cent of lost revenue.

Even harder to see the J-vanes on the Ferrari (not helped by there being only 10 photographers round the tracks at the moment, so many fewer pictures than usual) but I've found a couple photos of the SF1000's vanes:

https://i.redd.it/4awyalvl1al41.jpg

https://i.redd.it/xrhjfzmj0ql41.jpg

It'll be interesting to see if they change cape/J-vane philosophy with their much vaunted aero upgrade for Hungary in a couple of weeks. There certainly seem to be some pretty fundamental issues with their 2020 car at the moment. I'm sure their newly legal engine isn't helping them but watching some of Vettel's onboards from yesterday[0] there's clearly something aerodynamically wrong too, the car just isn't planted in any phase of cornering.

[0] - https://twitter.com/deadlinex/status/1279825624719392768

Always tricky to see detail in this area of an F1 car, but the BBC really haven't picked the clearest photos ...

Hopefully a bit clearer here:

* Mercedes W11 cape: https://i.imgur.com/LoDuge8.jpg

* Red Bull RB16: https://i.imgur.com/lJ4SrYv.jpg

* Renault RS20: https://i.imgur.com/XJVeFwN.png

Yeah I'm struggling to get too excited here. Theoretically latency with current geostationary satellites "could be as low as" 477ms, but they're usually 600ms+.

Plus this is for v2, which Elon has said will be launching on Starship ... so some years away.

You're right. The first stage (4 conical shaped boosters hanging off the sides) and the second stage (central core booster) all fire together to lift-off. When the side-boosters are depleted they jettison (and perform the Korolev cross) while the second stage keeps firing.

The third stage also starts before the second stage is completely depleted; this is why there's an "open grate" visible in photos of the rocket (about half way down the stack, see [1]), gives the exhaust somewhere to go before the previous stage is jettisoned. Hot staging is advantageous as you don't need extra ullage motors to deal with propellant being in the wrong place inside the tanks in microgravity. The Soyuz (and other R-7 variants) are brilliantly engineered; There's a reason they're still flying nearly 70 years on.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/So...

It's really cool, but my main takeaway from that video was multi-second input lag and you can see several times when he's dragging things around the computer doesn't do what he's expecting. It's a cool tech demo but I don't see how it's going to change the world like that.

Everyday Astronaut on YouTube has a great video on the environmental impact of rockets. 55 minutes long but it's fascinating. The TL;DW is they're not as bad as you'd expect. But not zero-emissions, obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4

As an outsider watching from across the Atlantic, I am astonished at what is being posted in these comments. There are hundreds of videos on social media of wanton police violence towards peaceful protestors. Of course there are non-peaceful protestors (and I do not defend them) but they are responded to in incidents of heavy handed violent escalation. Bellingcat have collected more than 100 reports of protected media representatives being beaten, blinded and brutalized by police action. This is all happening during unrest caused by police brutality.

And Hacker News wants to fix the protestors?!

This comment can surely not be in good faith. You cannot seriously be suggesting you believe that protesters went to "destroy evertyhing[sic] in every city"?

This is misleading at best. The NHS Comissioning Board has commissioned Sapropterin for use. However, due to its extraordinarily high costs and limited efficacy compared to maintaining a restricted diet, it is only prescribed in scenarios where there is an urgent clinical need for treatments like Sapropterin.

The NHS Commissioning Board's report on Tetrahydrobiopterin/Sapropterin/Kuvan is here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/e12-p-...

The results did get better after I discovered that setting a while back. But it's still not close to good enough and I still have to manually stick 'uk' onto a search to find relevant results for most queries.

This is _by far_ my biggest issue with DDG. I've been trying to use it for most of my searching and I'm fine with having to append '!g' to ~25% of my searches, it's not ideal, but whatever, I can manage.

Having to append 'uk' to 90% of searches after the first results page is full of useless American shit, for search terms that Google UK handles flawlessly, gets old, very quick.

> (SRAS)

Seems to be struggling with some of the nations in the UK. I can get London (England) and Swansea (Wales) no problem, but Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow (Scotland) etc. don't work. Nor do Derry, Belfast etc. (Northern Irish cities).

This was mined not far (at least by Siberian standards) from the Mir mine that hit the front-page [0] a couple weeks back. I started looking for anything mine-looking near Nyurba but couldn't find any likely candidates, I guess it's totally underground rather than strip-mined like Mir?

Also can't comment on a Russian diamond without bringing up the most oddly-named diamond I've ever found, the "26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22034055

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_Congress_of_the_Communist...

Edit: I believe I found the mine, 65°01'11.2"N 117°05'15.7"E

The plane did not deviate from its flight plan.

FlightRadar24 published[0] the track of the plane vs the other commercial planes taking off from IKA around the same time and vs previous flights of PS752. The plane made no movements that would lead an observer to believe it was anything other than a civilian passenger jet following its flight plan.

[0] - https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-cr... (under 'Other relevant flight information')