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.
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.
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> 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.
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.
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]