skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Star Citizen does the textures in Substance Designer, I would guess they're included in the game files and not regenerated at runtime.

I believe in addition to the terrain height/color maps, they generate textures that feed into object scattering so that rocks/trees/etc can be designed into the environments by the artists, but regenerated clientside to avoid needing to store millions of rock locations.

The low detail "from space" version used to be painted separately and then blend into the ground detail as you approach, but I believe the space view and the ground ecosystem mapping come off of the same map now.

EDIT: here's the video I'm remembering from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCc_aDNsAw

Whatever you think of the future prospects of the project, it's certainly technically interesting to keep an eye on
Its not so much that her book wasn't chosen, it that her book was singled out for removal. It also probably means she'll never get one of her books in a Texas school again because no librarian or school board will want to touch her with a 10 foot pole.

What strikes me is that people like Kara Bell are so hellbent on removing content which doesn't fit their narrow moral outlook. Nuance, perspective and anything else that comes along with intellectual curiosity is irrelevant to them. It just one step removed from a mob yelling "burn the witch".
Anytime the ENS sign in stuff is brought up, I feel obligated to point out the following:

Alex Van de Sande, the co-founder of ENS, posted in 2018 an interesting demo with UniLogin, "[Universal Logins demo for Ethereum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5t94cCg6XE)". [The project was abandoned in 2020](https://medium.com/universal-ethereum/out-of-gas-were-shutti...).

This is a hard problem that needs a fantastic solution. I don't think sign in with Ethereum is better than UniLogin. UniLogin was good, the team was smart, and this was still too much of a problem for them to feel like it was worth their time to solve.

Then there's the significant problem of state expiry. How do you log out? I don't see that they're really addressing this problem. Right now the EIP has the attitude to "push that problem down to the servers". Websites need complete solutions, not more problems. Others have already made progress down this road, and I don't see anything different from what has already been done before.
Other countries get a bill in the mail for how much taxes are owed. It's entirely reasonable to be disappointed with the IRS.
Nothing "needs" to be restricted. There are people who prefer to restrict certain things to certain people of certain ages, because "reasons".

Meanwhile, kids like me were watching Sleepaway Camp at age 9 and it was fine.
Why Microsoft is pushing for its weakest link - the advertising business?

They missed the mobile train, hardly anyone uses Bing (even DuckDuckGo, which is based on their API, seems to be stagnant in terms of the daily query growth).

I find it difficult to connect the dots here.
happened to me too, the only one there I have is uBlock origin, matched what somebody also had. Hard to imagine it's ublock origin though because it has so many users.
I don't work for Apple or Meta but I'm thinking that Apple should pay me to not work for Meta and Meta should pay me to not work for Apple. Everybody wins.
I have tried adopting SQLite in my side projects. The problem I encountered is that using managed PostgreSQL/MySQL is still more convenient and more reliable than using SQLite on a bare metal VPS. I like to use Heroku or Digital Ocean App platform because I want to spend time creating and not managing the infrastructure (ci/cd, ssl certs, reverse proxy, db backup, scaling, container management and what not). I tried looking for a managed SQLite but could not find one. On an unrelated note I found using Redis a good lightweight alternative to the classical psql/MySQL. Although still multi-tier and more difficult to model data, it’s initially cheaper and easier to manage than its relational counterparts. Anyone has had similar setup/preference?
Am I getting whooshed ? This is surely satire.
One clever plan to do that I've heard is the idea of a progressive consumption tax. That is, you have the existing income tax structure but you make all savings in banks or brokerages or whatever tax deductible but tax anything you withdraw from them as regular income. This would tend to have some nice properties with letting people smooth consumption, getting rid of special items in our tax code for particular sorts of savings, and solve the problem of billionaires borrowing against their stock to live without having to pay taxes. You do have to keep having a special case for housing which is both a form of consumption and a savings vehicle and a few others but it looks like it would be a bit simpler and fairer.
That article linked to this article https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069
on a controlled randomized study that claims "Mask distribution and promotion was a scalable and effective method to reduce symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections."
But until relatively recently (2018 perhaps?) Congress was legally allowed to profit with insider trading (probably due to Article I, section 6, paragraph 1 of the Constitution).
I would bet that most of it probably comes down to this part specifically:

> such as money from dealing illegal drugs

Given the number of states which have legalized some drugs, there will be a growing, non-trivial number of people who have some income which is legal in their state but not at the federal level. I don't know what fraction of them would be trying that purely as a tax dodge but I could very easily believe someone at the IRS wanted to have an FAQ to point to in that situation.
Can we shoot this at 660fps? Or is that only available on the v1 and v2 cams?
yes because results are jelly beaned. If you keep changing what to measure for success criteria until you get what you want, you are more likely reject the null hypothesis even though you should not have OR if you dont publish results that doesnt fit your political bias, the 1/20 ones that do get published and also incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis
Street crime has distorted our politics before; it could do so again
I think it was the taxes being referenced. Other than property tax, Texas has significantly lower rates than California. And the property tax being higher in Texas is offset by lower overall property prices.
> because HER book, in particular, wasn't chosen by this particular school

It was specifically removed from shelves: "Lake Travis ISD removed all print copies of Out of Darkness from its middle school libraries", blocked: "banned from use in classroom libraries and the school book clubs", restricted: "Keller ISD, north of Fort Worth, restricted access", etc.

This isn't "some schools didn't stock my book" at all.
It's not even about having the money or not - they'd get it in the end anyways if you were caught - it's about having a second vector to convict you. It's often easier to prove tax fraud than the actual crimes. They're setting you up for the ol' Al Capone treatment.

I would argue they don't want you to pay so they have this option, however they're generally required by law to make it possible for you to pay without incriminating yourself so that it was legal for them to prosecute you for not doing so.
there are no practical use cases for blockchain outside of git
I use Google Workspace for our family's email. One of the drawbacks of doing so is that Google has services they won't let you use with a Workspace account or won't give you the personal version. If I remember correctly: Google Voice, One, and maybe Play store app sharing were problematic.

I've wondered about alternatives, so interested to see what shows up in this thread.
No apologies necessary! It is always nice to see interesting Emacs projects in the comment threads. :-)
> If it is false is it really right to flag the post. I mean yes it is false but as Americans we are supposed to have free speech when we don't.

Good thing nothing that happens on Facebook ever spills over into other countries.

On a non-sarcastic note, I find it interesting that you didn't engage at all with the comment about Facebook and genocides. It's easy to sit in an ivory tower and play philosopher on topics of corporate censorship like this. What's less interesting, but far more useful, is evaluating whether Facebook should do more to moderate when their platform is actively used to orchestrate genocides in several separate places on earth.
> that people coming into the field seem this stupid and lazy. When you imagine not ever having been any sort of interested hacker and working in security, without actual tech and architecture skills,

That is not being lazy or stupid. That is signing to a course with expectation you will learn something new.

It is fairly normal in anything. Hardworking smart people sign for language lessons, trade school, accounting course, driving lessons and what not without knowing anything and then learning it.
That version has been in development for some time (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5905 is a proposed standard since June 2010)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Timestam...:

NTPv4 introduces a 128-bit date format: 64 bits for the second and 64 bits for the fractional-second. The most-significant 32-bits of this format is the Era Number which resolves rollover ambiguity in most cases. According to Mills, "The 64-bit value for the fraction is enough to resolve the amount of time it takes a photon to pass an electron at the speed of light. The 64-bit second value is enough to provide unambiguous time representation until the universe goes dim."
The irony of retiring to avoid the problem only to have it become a problem with the equipment keeping you alive in retirement.
> find sources you trust

And those sources will consist of...who? Perhaps, people who have spent time and effort learning about the topic, a.k.a. "the experts"?
I wish I could separate decentralized database from volatile investment. I understand that it can provide an incentive to get paid for essentially hosting part of the database. Is your average person benefiting from this or did we just give most of the centralization to mining farms where electricity is cheaper?

Is web3 crypto money? Is it peer to peer? Is it blockchain?

Does the blockchain really make sense for something like a HN clone or an instagram?

If I were trying to proselytize web3 I would be promoting tech demos and convincing people why it is better. Like the Rails blog video that blew all of our minds in the past. We all wanted to use Rails after that. The benefits were clear.
> It is nearly impossible that an entire field of study will succumb to bias

It's happened before, especially when a select few command the majority of the field's grants/publications. If you are interested in how this could happen, here's an example of where basically the entirety of the Alzheimer's disease research field of study succumbed to bias:

https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...

as well as the HN discussion on it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225
> You're the most reasonable crypto-enthusiast I think I've seen on this site but your position is tainted by this fact, for me.

Can you elaborate on why this taints my position? It wasn't a statement of opinion or an endorsement of Bitcoin, or proof of work. I was just giving a timeline on how long I have been involved with crypto currencies.
Building NFT Related CLI Tool with Elrond's JavaScript SDK
Desktop Linux is great for Grandma who only needs a web browser and it's great for greybeards who remember what config file to edit, but anyone in between is going to be doing a LOT of pasting incantations they don't understand into terminal windows.
Since OP is an engineering manager, I wonder if they could get ACM memberships for all their engineers. Plus SIAM, or IEEE depending on their field.
This isn't librarians choosing what to stock. This is librarians being mandated on what they cannot choose to stock. That is the librarian is in fact banned from choosing that book, because if they put it on the shelves they will be in trouble.

What "conservative" books have been mandated off the shelves?
On a very small scale I am working on a next-generation web for myself and people immediately around me.

My #1 principle is cost minimization so that I don't need to worry about what it costs to run.

Futurists circa 1970 expected that people would be getting their news from something like cnn.com in the Early 1980s

https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/summer-reading-2013-the-in...

In some sense it came true in that you could access the AP newswire on Compuserve and the Source and that there were teletext services in Europe.

All of these faced bad economics. The cost of CompuServe was astronomical. The only one that came close to mass market was Minitel in France and that was because the phone company saw they could save money on directory services.

The web came along because technology had progressed an order of magnitude past feasibility to the point where people could publish stuff on the web and not worry about what it costs. That act of closing the circle and making it financial sustainable really trashed it.
because institutions lost their influence

no kids reads newspaper, nor they watch the TV, traditional propaganda has no effect on them

web3 would be a way to centralize everything again, so propaganda could be better targeted, opinions controlled, and easily censor-able

you lol'd at china and their social credit score system? don't be jealous, you'll have yours! but it wont be about being a good citizen, it'll be about being a servant consumerist

i see web3.0 as a way for the establishment to regain the influence they lost on their people

the boomers trying to stay relevant

the people late to the internet party, can't have a piece of the cake, so they want to force their way in

a way for societal scammers to keep doing what they love doing

NFT people? they can't wait selling art they bought for $5 from fivers and pretend you own a piece of a database they rent on digital ocean for $5 a month

lol, what a wonderful plan, definitely something China is jealous of, no wonder they are looking for ways to get the hell out of this planet and conquer the space

because there is one thing that would definitely kill our species, if the west tries to expand its shitty society outside of this dying planet

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i mean, people dream of meta verse, how ridiculous, therefore i can be ridiculous with my posts too! who cares, we not looking for transcending humankind, are we? my bad my bad, i mean, you not even trying lol
More info about WAL mode concurrency [0]

No reader-writer lock. Still only 1 concurrent writer, but write via append to WAL file is cheaper. Can adjust read vs write performance by syncing WAL file more or less often. Can also increase performance with lower durability by not syncing WAL file to disk as often

https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
Not a very useful framework at all, more of a caricature.

Big problem with the economy is that it rewards zero-sum leeches rather than compensate the sacrifice of labor. And the superwealthy are always people who figured out or inherited a way to be parasites.
You mean, it turned a backwater decaying agrarian empire into a world superpower, twice (Russia and China)?

Side note: when the USSR held a referendum on whether it should be dissolved, most people voted to keep it (77% yes, 23% no) [1]. Things by far were not rosy in the late 80s (when a quarter of the nation votes for dissolution, things aren't great), but they weren't 30s either.

That's, of course assuming you mean the USSR/China and ignore all the other welfare states in Europe, as well as programs like foodstamps in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
Who is to say if that is politically correct, but I think your statement is certainly wrong.

> If you are willing to invest your time in reading - then any book that is being targeted by the current culture war is very likely to be an inefficient use of your time. Focus on books that will generate maximum value for you to become a productive member of society, who can be rewarded for the value that you bring to an organization, or learn topics that will enable you to build a business that provides value to paying customers.

The article is about a book being banned in middle school. If you were in grade 8 concerned with whether the books you are reading will give direct profit to an organization, more power to you. But this isn’t the way that the majority of eighth graders think (nor the way that they should think).

The value of fiction books may be less direct that non-fiction reference (to which I assume you are referring, happy to be corrected), but the value is there nevertheless. A great banned fiction book is To Kill A Mockingbird- it has strong themes of right and wrong, justice, and of youth. Though I may have not identified those directly when I read it (in ~grade 8), it was fascinating and made me very excited to read.

Just because the value is longer term, doesn’t mean that it is of lower value.
> The HDMI Forum’s argument is that ... that optional features allow manufacturers to have flexibility in what functionality they offer...

> That argument doesn’t really hold up, though. The whole point of standards is that they’re meant to simplify this sort of thing by, you know, standardizing it across devices — if you have to dig into a spec sheet to figure out if the specific refresh rate feature you want is supported on a new TV, why bother with the HDMI 2.x branding in the first place?

I wonder if the Forum has much of an option here. Standards are not laws and if a standard mandates features that manufacturers are not interested in, they can and will break it without consequences.

So, it might be that the actual choice was between "chaotic incompatible mess" and "chaotic incompatible mess with some semblance of structure".

I have no understanding for the brand confusion though. That was already a horrible idea with USB and it doesn't become less horrible by repetition.
LastPass posted on their blog Dec 28 that they have identified a problem that resulted in emails being sent incorrectly:

https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/unusual-attempted-login-ac...

"However, out of an abundance of caution, we continued to investigate in an effort to determine what was causing the automated security alert emails to be triggered from our systems. Our investigation has since found that some of these security alerts, which were sent to a limited subset of LastPass users, were likely triggered in error. As a result, we have adjusted our security alert systems and this issue has since been resolved."
I'm saying that if the 'demographic skew' of a large percentage of the population actively practicing one religion prevents meaningful political discourse...

That isn't what the parent is arguing though.
You can't just blanket remap tab as it's overloaded for org-cycle, helm-select-action, expand in ido and so on.
> If you reward something, you get more of it. This creates a black market of arranging kidnappings for the tax break.

This is the kind of unhinged batshit economic thinking that leads to people dying because they can’t afford insulin.
As time goes on, the ever-evolving nature of the predictions about how crypto will change the world for the better keeps looking more and more like the ever-evolving nature of the predictions we were seeing 50 years ago about how the space aliens were going to come along and change the world for the better.

Granted, crypto has a bit of an advantage over the space aliens in the race to realize a transformative impact on the world, by virtue of the fact that it actually exists. That's not the parallel I'm trying to draw here. It's more... it seems that they're both a situation where people are really just attached to this one amorphous romantic idea, and the specifics really don't matter at all. Meaning they can be freely reconfigured, at will and without much limit, in order to ensure we're always talking about something that's off in the future rather than something we might expect to happen now, let alone in the past. Which, something like that is absolutely perfect fodder for daydreaming.

So then I ask myself, "Is kicking a ball through it a core part of the plan, or is this goalpost really just a thing that's fun to move around?"

Perhaps my problem is that there's not really any romance in my soul.
> When you invest in a venture, you pay taxes on the profits. You pay taxes on the dividends it throws off. Whatever accumulated value remains when you sell your share gets hit by capital gains tax.

This is not true. When you invest in a venture, hold its stock for 60 days, and it pays you its profit, this income is considered "qualified dividends" and is subject to capital gains tax.

> The "tax on money you made with money you have" is the combination of the profit tax, dividend tax, and capital gains tax.

What are "profit tax" and "dividend tax"? These are not terms used in USA.

From the IRS rules:

> Whereas ordinary dividends are taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividends that meet certain requirements are taxed at lower capital gain rates.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc404

> Qualified Dividends > Holding period. You must have held the stock for more than 60 days during the 121-day period that begins 60 days before the ex-dividend date.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p550#en_US_2020_publink1000...
Why use floating point for timestamps?

In practice, floating point timestamps have a constant precision throughout their life. That is, the exponent has the same value for a really long time, and you don't get any benefit from the "floating" aspect.

As another poster points out, overflow/NaN/infinity is the one nice thing you get. But you pick up all the idiosyncrasies of floats, too.

As you point out, float64 is worse than int64_t at attaining a given level of precision for a reasonable amount of time.

You do point out that floats "seamlessly upgrade" to increased precision, and this is kind of nice. But if we're picking a 128 bit type, there should be no upgrading needed ever.

It just doesn't make sense.
All of these fall under “harmful for other reasons”.
If this had been done in America it would just be finishing the planning stage, 500 million over-budget, with a optimistic completion date of 2028. Likely 2032
Yes you are right that is literally following gps blindly, and probably people should pull over.
I have linked to several sources in this thread, but as am not going to bother when someone says “your wrong” and nothing else. It’s the same reason I don’t talk with flat earth people, trolling is amusing for some people show a little investment and I may educate you.
There are tools for process maps that can execute code at specific steps based on criteria. I spent several years working with IBM Filenet process maps. There are other, similar tools. You can also build a rules engine in a DB with a either a background process checking those conditions or potentially triggers tied to the data (depending on the DB).

There certainly are answers to be had. I just believe that in this corporate world, people understand that it's best for their career to call what they work on by some fancy new name so they can look good and make more money.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/out-of-darknes...

A website that reviews books and suggests when they are age appropriate says this book is suggested for 15+ year olds. The story is talking about middle school libraries...

It also says this book is A+ for educational value...it just has a significant amount of mature subject matter.
Agreed. By this logic, if it can even be called that, no one could ever be taken advantage of, because they agreed to be defrauded.