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It’s an accident that could also happen to an inattentive human driver. (Ask me how I know :( )

But, if you watch the car’s display panel, it looks as if the car didn’t see anything and just went full speed ahead. That’s not great.

It should have slowed down and alerted the driver that something was there. I didn’t watch the complete video so maybe there’s more.

Corporations have a degree of legal personhood, and corporations can sue you for defamation because it harms their business interests.

So, why not? If a virtual person is the face of a corporation, which is a legal person, then you could be sued.

It’s insane, but it’s real.

A wild story. He’s cautious of traveling internationally. I’ve also read opinions that Ulbricht can still be troubled by legal matters inside the US, civil cases, and other potential charges that were dropped. Is that possible?

I very dislike how the US government administered his prosecution with a clumsy sledgehammer, but that does not mean he is free of responsibility, moral and maybe legal.

It’s affected by how Google currently ranks the plain domain name in a search. It used to be higher than it is now, but it still has got a lot of weight

OK if they called this feature “Pro-Res AI Generated”, not “Pro-Res Zoom”

That would be useful. I assume the feature doesn’t exist. You could ask for it, or maybe it’s possible to develop an external search site or tool that can do that.

The weird answer is that at least some of that functionality is already there. But the documentation and fine control of the search is lousy:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

There’s also an option in the search settings which is supposed to enable or disable whether usernames are relevant

HN itself is a bookmarking tool, BTW

The management and search and annotation options are very weak, but when you submit a link here at HN, you are also making a permanent bookmark that will remain accessible via your account

Yikes! It would be smart to bury these strings in an ad hoc obfuscation so they aren’t so obvious.

It doesn’t even need to be much better than ROT13. Security by obscurity is good for this situation.

No real methodology. Only my opinion.

>Can you imagine living in one of the countries that the US keeps bombing? Every time you hear an airplane you have to think if you're about to die, or someone you know is about to die, or a school is about to be blown up, or a water treatment facility.

No, I can’t imagine it. I’m not even capable of imagining it. I agree it must be terrifying, and soul-destroying in the long term.

The image sensor samples different light wavelengths with a time offset of about 250ms, as the satellite moves over the Earth.

I think that means it could be possible to enhance the resolution by using luminance data from one wavelength to make an ‘educated guess’ at the luminance of other wavelengths. It would be a more advanced version of the kind of interpolation that standard image sensor cameras do with a bayer color filter

So it seems possible to get some extra information out of the system, with a good likelihood of success, but some risk of point hallucinations.

The image sensor and filters are quite complex. Much more complicated than a simple bayer filter CCD/CMOS sensor. It is not AFAIK a moving filter, but a fixed one, however the satellite is obviously moving.

I don’t know if the ‘Super-Resolution’ technique in the OP is taking advantage of that possibility though. I agree it would be disappointing if it’s just guessing —- although perhaps a carefully well-trained ML system would still figure out how to use the available data as I’ve suggested.

the optical Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) samples 13 spectral bands: four bands at 10 m, six bands at 20 m and three bands at 60 m spatial resolution

Due to the particular geometrical layout of the focal plane, each spectral band of the MSI observes the ground surface at different times.

https://sentiwiki.copernicus.eu/web/s2-mission

I’m making some guesses, because I don’t understand most of the optics and camera design which that ESA page describes. For instance if anyone can explain why there’s a big ~250ms offset between measuring different light wavelengths, despite the optics and filters being fixed in place immobile relative to each other? Thank you.

The time per orbit is about 100 minutes. Sun-synchronous orbit.

Actually there are 3 satellites. The constellation is supposed to be 2, there’s currently a spare one as well. But the orbits are very widely separated, supposed to be on opposite sides of the planet, so I don’t know how much enhancement there could be from combining the images from all the satellites. And don’t know if the OP’s method even tries that.

Anyway, the folks at ESA working with Sentinel-2/Copernicus must have already thought very hard about anything they can do to enhance these images, surely?

Edit: The L1BSR project which is linked to from the OP git page does include ‘exploiting sensor overlap’! So I assume it really is doing a process similar to what I’ve suggested

No. They’re all terrorists. All states, all nexuses of control, can be defined as terrorists, if we broaden our definition of terrorist to include states and all their apparatuses. In particular, with reference to the state’s effective monopoly on legal violence.

But, amongst those options, you should have the intelligence to choose the least bad.

“The United States is the world's biggest terrorist”, is IMHO almost a meaningless claim. It is true, arguably, but in that case it is irrelevant.

Based on this interpretation, the US is far from the worst powers in our world. In fact it is above the median.

Thanks. You’ve made some strong points there

‘early mover disadvantage’ is a compelling phrase

Case in point: Google providing Android for free killed Windows Phone, Symbian, PalmOS, Blackberry, and several other attempts to create a mobile device OS

Which was among the reasons that Google did that, not that the company would say so.

If I owned a slaughterhouse, I wouldn’t build my house next to it

That would encourage sellers to mail a potential fire hazard, unless it’s clarified that there’s no risk when it’s not connected.

But upvoted for helping everyone realize that’s a problem

No. It seems much too early to draw this conclusion. SpaceX’s Falcon program also looked like a guaranteed fail. But it has been the most astonishing success in affordable orbital launch tech in human history.

The essay’s comparison to the deliberately disposable throwaway Saturn V (which had massive additional costs being buried in various agency budgets for congressional pork games and international prestige) - this sounds like a very weak argument.

(Edit - Nobody can deny that Saturn V/IVb and Apollo were heroic achievements in their time, and that SpaceX succeeds because it stands on the shoulders of giants, but we have moved on).

>“weight. Starship weighs far too much”

Now, that is a pertinent observation. The crazy number of missions that are needed just to refuel the most basic mission out of GEO orbit with Starship! But the SpaceX excuse for that would be that their launch cadence and cost is designed to make this manageable and economical. (But not yet, obviously).

Let’s talk again after 20 more failed Starship tests. Then this essay could have greater credence.

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I wonder if it would have been safer for SpaceX to just keep building on the Falcon technology? Instead of being mad ambitious with Starship.

Agree.

The only permission the extension needed was “downloads, which normally only allows an extension to download and search for user files, not read or write to them”

That’s not an unusual permission for an attractive but safe sounding extension, for example an extension to download all images from a page

$100k at least?

The value of this to bad guys could be up to millions

Use a hardware wallet to protect you from malware on your own devices

Split your money into smaller amounts in separate addresses to protect yourself from a malevolent smart contract that drains all the funds in an address

Check the receiving address in a blockchain explorer. Does its past activity align with the purposes of the receiving address?

Send a smaller transaction first, and wait a a few minutes to see the results, if the fee is small enough to make that acceptable

Thanks, I didn’t know that, but it will still affect console sales, and therefore the chip fab manufacturing load and the sales of the chips in the console.

That’s why a console manufacturer pays Rockstar for an exclusive.

This would have some impact on hardware sales, particularly graphics-related chips

>Ireland's business is whatever Ireland wants it to be

Ireland offers a favorable tax and regulatory environment, within the EU, so this punishment is not only Ireland’s business. It represents the EU.

If someone is so skillful that they can restore the painting to its original state, then I think they would be skillful enough to make a perfect copy, so there’s no need to tamper with the original work.

Their expert copy of the work would be valuable and educational in itself, and avoid damaging the original

You’re the author?

The final step in the process “Wait for complaints” seems like a smart acceptance of the “perfect is the enemy of good” challenge

Publish and be damned, or as we say now: Move fast and break things

Edit the location metadata to be obviously false (Alaska coordinates for a tropical beach photo) then see what it says?

The 6502-based Atari computers had the CPU clock held at 80% higher than the C64. That must have been a very significant impact at a time when the CPU had to do most of the work.

I assume because they knew they’d literally get only one shot. So imaging more of the nearby surface was the best use of that opportunity, for doing science.

The Soviets had already landed a probe on Mars, which sent back the top few lines of a picture of the sky and then stopped scanning down, and died. So they must have not wanted a repeat of that disappointment!

Probably, on Venus, the bandwidth and sensor tech just weren’t enough for it to be possible to get more pixels in the time available? So they concentrated the effort on the nearest rocks

Sadly that does make the photos visually sort of unimpressive, unlike all the splendid panoramic views America’s Viking probes took of Mars. (Where the lander wasn’t being pressure cooked and acid-etched in 20 minutes)

I don’t agree. I think the Reischtag stunt is very much related to advertising methods

The atrocities subsequently committed are on a whole different level though. I think we might agree on this

A sad epitaph

I’m very glad he tried, even if he only proved that it was impossible