So much work is done for HIPAA compliance, and then the only authentication required is a birth date.

If you're interested in efforts to catalog and even deflect asteroids that might hit Earth:

https://b612.ai/

The ".ai" stands for "Asteroid Institute." It was started by two former astronauts, Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart.

IPO when?

Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.

I'd say most people don't though, and those people might be more influential to advertisements anyways so it's a net win for them.

I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.

I second your recommendation. I watched it last night, and loved it. It was beautiful to see the level of competence and devotion of the tiny group running the spacecraft.

Yep! If there was ever a solid recommendation for a movie to recommend to your dad...

Andy gave a nice talk on the implementation of Chez Scheme, an optimizing compiler, at the Scheme Workshop in Berlin in 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-enNCZxaU

Absolutely. I do all my LLM-assisted work inside Emacs using Agent Shell and Emacs skills:

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

https://github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills

Here's Pixie Scheme, which is an interesting implementation for the iPad:

https://jayreynoldsfreeman.com/My/Wraith_Scheme_(64-bit_vers...

This makes me nostalgic for my 4K TRS-80 Model I with cassette tape. There was something beautiful about having control over everything, and even the tight constraints were sometimes fun.

I love Waymo. Using the word "impact" is unfortunate.