skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my parents, it's the social pressure caused by the fact you don't want all the other parents to be pissed at you for spoiling it for everyone.
As far as I understand Minecraft stores the chunks a player visits so that if the generation changes the chunks you've already visited stays, and it becomes an issue of solving boundaries. I don't know what Minecraft does there, but a plausible method would be to generate past the boundaries, and apply some merging process to make it mesh somewhat predictably if the generation changes.

An idea I'd love to see implemented (maybe someone has) is to apply a time element to the generator function where things change towards whatever the generator expects. E.g. new types of trees start growing, desert spreads or recedes etc.

You may want to then make player-placed blocks more resistant, but otherwise apply transformation functions to slowly migrate the terrain. You can apply that more aggressively to chunks the player rarely if ever visits. E.g. erode land that's too high. have trees grow etc. Some features then certainly will be noticeably "wrong" - e.g. a mountain suddenly growing - so maybe you make exceptions and just try to eat away at the differences you can plausibly change. Even if you can't change everything, you can at least try to use it to make things blend better. Couple it with running the old generator slightly further out from the user and you can mark those chunks as "unseen" and much more aggressively blend faster there.

The more finegrained info you store about what the player has actually seen, the more aggressively you can apply this.
> If you are a citizen or a resident, you get an ID card to use for every public service. It's just a smart card with a government PKI.

This is the biggest flaw in the design. Tying the ID card to a single identity.

If you're using it with a bank, it needs to be tied to your bank account. If you're using it for physical access control at your company's building, it needs to be tied to your employee account. These are different things, and should be different things, for security.

You don't want a single system for everything. It makes the incentive to break it stronger, so it gets broken more often. It makes the consequences of it getting broken larger, so the damage when it happens multiplies. And it gets integrated into everything, so the amount of time it takes to roll out fixes increases. It's a security nightmare, and it gets polynomially worse the bigger the country is that tries to do it that way. (For reference, the GDP of Estonia is less than one third the revenue of Costco.)
My dad used a fly a cesna 172 when I was a kid. So I've heard many stories from his pilot friends about losing engines, landing in fields and the like. It happens quite a lot, apparently.

A few things strike me:

o why was he wobbling the yoke so much forwards and backwards, that costs you speed, and knackers your glide efficiency.

o Why wasn't he looking for landing sites (he was up really high, like 2k+ above the mountain top), edit: see comment daughter, decent is measured in feet per minute, unfeathered prop will cause drag, nailing your glide ratio so not 10 minutes glide time before action was needed

o why didn't he set his glide path up properly, to give him time to think?

o why isn't he looking at the checklist for engine failure? (my dad had one in the middle) I suspect he might not have one

o Did he send a distress signal?

o where was the attempt to restart the engine (granted it might not be young enough to have a starter, but he had the height to spin the prop)

Finally, the other thing that gets me, is that the door is open before the engine fails. which either means that he's expecting the failure (checklists are your friend here) so why wasn't he lining up/searching for a river bed for landing?
I mean, if I want to send you some money, and let's say you are just in Canada (I am in the United States), my options are limited and many are super expensive... and almost all of them take forever. The only cheap, easy, and fast way is PayPal (or their subsidiary Venmo), which I don't think anyone truly likes (evidence for which is easy: find literally any thread on Hacker News about them that isn't using their existence to defend why cryptocurrencies are unnecessary).

Other than PayPal, Bitcoin (or Ethereum and Avalanche or what have you) is much easier than all of these systems, and while it currently may or may not be as cheap, it was frankly a "first draft": the subsequent protocols the community is using are all (incrementally) cheaper and the ecosystem has even been succeeding at improving the overall scalability. If you tell me your Bitcoin address--no matter where you are in this increasingly global world--I can reliably send you money.
>Your quote is not in the reason.com article linked here.

No, it's in the Atlantic article specifically linked in the Reason.com article. I'd suggest reading that since the entire thing is based off of it.

>In fact, it would have made no difference tracking cases because of school district's policy of testing only 'unmasked' individuals.

You may want to reread this part...

This creates what’s known as a detection bias, she said, which could grossly affect the study’s findings. (Jehn and McCullough called it “highly speculative to make the assumption that identified close contacts are more likely to be tested than other students.”) McNutt believes that masks are an important prevention tool in the pandemic, but she maintained that the Arizona study doesn’t answer the specific question it purports to answer: whether mask mandates for students reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2."
"not statistically significant" means you cannot draw conclusions from it. You're mistaken when you draw the conclusion that masks are not effective.
It's honestly hard to say if you haven't tried it. You know your pain, but that's all you know. The experiences behind these substances are incredibly varied. Infinitely so. And they can heal you.
Incorrect for N > INT_MAX/2.
> I like to think of other use cases, like real estate or stock options. If you talk about a plot of land, it seems feasible to find a unique identifier (you could even involve the government).

A deed digitally signed by the government's private key satisfies this need without a blockchain.
I made a similar 1v1 drop multiplayer game: http://fuse.rupy.se/cube.html

It's more like a simple version of Puyo Puyo or Puzzle Fighter.
Yes. Make it web scale.

Also, think early on about your compensation packages. You don't want to lose a 10x engineer to a FAANG, do you?
Poll: Are You Overweight or Obese?
If your BMI is 25.0 to <30, it falls within the overweight range.

If your BMI is 30.0 or higher, it falls within the obesity range.

BMI calculator: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.html
No, I'm neither overweight nor obese
Yes, I'm overweight though not obese
Yes, I'm obese
If this is a way to get the government to fund machine learning for designer chemical compounds (with possible medical applications as a side effect), I might be in favor of it, at least temporarily... and repeal when the technology is good enough for commercial use without government funding.
Fascinating thread. Thanks HN.
> 3m53s

Hmm, I see what you're saying - is that a second camera or a mount though?

https://imgur.com/a/REa64jn
What does being poor have to do with flags? I don't see the connection to the quote, could you please explain it?
Related, this book is great: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry...
Clickable - BMI calculator: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/en...
What makes these alternatives "crypto-like" other than being less centralized? Are they even less centralized, other than being platforms owned by smaller corporations that choose to (for now) exercise a lighter touch?
The market might step in. If you can buy cheap batteries, buy cheap surplus energy, and sell at a profit to stabilize the grid…
Generally planes are good gliders. The only reason to bail out is if it is impossible to find an airport/landing strip within glide range and the aircraft is in a remote location where the aircraft crashing won’t matter.

Even in the latter case - there is limited benefit from jumping early vs. gliding towards civilization/possible landing sites.

IIRC dealing with engine out/glide contingencies is part of pilot training and licensing in the US

EDIT: the commenters on the FA also point out several distinct troubleshooting steps that are missing from the video including pre-engine failure signs + recovery steps, radioing ATC for guidance, flying above roads to ensure proximity to off field landing sites, and maintaining an updated list of off field landing sites along the route.

At the very least, several flying mistakes were demonstrated.
Nice! It work reminds me of this artwork from Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel - https://harm.work/work/deli-near-info

Unfortunately the actual web app doesn't seem to work anymore
For the M365 offering you have to do custom domains at GoDaddy if going for their Home SKUs. If you use the Business/Enterprise SKUs you can set it up with any registrar. Took me a while to figure that out.
There are certainly such games existing, although I can't recall any particular cybersecurity games offhand.

One resource for more entertainment games is the megagaming thing (https://megagamecoalition.com/ is a starting point):

"Megagames combine the physical mechanics of board games with the fluid emergent gameplay of role‐playing games at large player counts (40‐80 players). Players are encouraged to be creative but must act within the existing game mechanics and established setting. Megagames range in time length, ranging from two hours to entire weekends. A team of moderators (Control) coordinate the game, adjudicate rules, and make sure players have the best experience possible!"

Another semi-professional ("Professional games" being run by the DoD or various militaries for training or analysis.) option is the National Security Decision Making Game (https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/the-national-securi...). Pre-COVID, they ran a pandemic game several times that was at least somewhat prescient.

Oh, and I'd be remiss to not mention the Connections group of conferences (One or more on every continent except Antarctica, I think.) (https://connections-wargaming.com/) They have discussions primarily of professional games, but topics like megagaming, cybersecurity, and the NSDMG are common---it's open to anyone who wants to take gaming seriously. There will be a (free!) Connections Online in Summer 2022; strongly recommended.

The History of Wargaming Project (http://www.wargaming.co) has branched out to print several books on cybersecurity gaming. Naturally I can't get to their website now, but a couple are The Handbook of Cyber Wargames (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086WMMYS4/ref=dbs_a_def_r...) and Dark Guest (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J3OVJXG/ref=dbs_a_def_r...)

There's a giant rabbit hole here if you're interested.
I mostly meant the app you're using to access the data doing the moderation for you.

I don't think we would be back to square 1. We would still have the possibility to create new clients and build whatever applications we want without being under the mercy of Big Tech holding the data hostage. Sure, maybe one such app talking to the open platform would become dominant and the de facto operator but at least it wouldn't have the power to restrict, limit or shut down other apps.
seems like the tl;dr is: the amalgamation is stupid because 1.) it takes longer to build than it would if it wasn't an amalgamation and 2.) zip files instead of tarballs is somehow discriminatory against linux users(?). it's as though the author missed the entire point of the amalgamation to begin with, i.e. so you can easily embed sqlite directly into your application, in scenarios where your reason for doing so outweighs the cons of foregoing using shared libraries (i.e. embedded). basically, linux guy is disproportionately outraged that the sqlite amalgamation takes a minute to build because of intentional choices made to simplify cross-platform and "incorporated" builds instead of just doing everything The Linux Way. it's not difficult to see why the amalgamation exists given C's lack of a well-defined cross-platform build system and the massively wide array of platforms and situations sqlite is used in production in.
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Literally never (former flight instructor). I have no idea how to operate a parachute. Not required knowledge!

Occasionally a student pilot will inadvertently get into stall/spin (only allowed at a proper altitude) during stall training. The value of the student getting into the stall spin, and flight instructor calmly saying "what are you going to do?" is way higher than a parachute. Low altitude stall/spins are essentially not recoverable (in time) and you die. A parachute won't help you, you're not getting out of the plane soon enough. And a parachute as a fallback for proper stall/spin recovery technique to me is idiotic. Don't get in a stall spin low to the ground, and if you have the altitude you recover. Either you can't parachute out or you don't need to. That's the bottom line.

Further, my confidence getting out of the plane with a parachute on is essentially zero. Whereas I know I can recover from a stall/spin. In fact, normally trimmed, most planes have positive static and dynamic stability, and will recover from a stall spin on their own if you just relax back pressure on the yoke. Which I'd have to do to parachute away from the plane. So hilariously, by jumping from the plane, the plane has a very good chance of recovering on its own, obviating the need to jump.

Now for aerobatics training, it's different because plausibly you could stress the airplane enough to break it. At which point it might be uncontrollable enough you'd need to parachute out to survive. And flight over hazardous terrain is another plausible scenario although I'd argue that's just plain bad flight planning. WTF are you doing planning a flight where you can't glide to a road? I've done quite a lot of mountain flying and it's not difficult to plane this, at least in the lower 48. In Alaska and Canada, I'm sure there's a bit of a chuckle the idea of being in gliding distance of a road or some flat enough surface.

But for the other 95% of flights going on, you're not considering a parachute. No. I've never worn one.
The point is that masks are obviously effective. It requires a lot of mental gymnastics to reach the conclusion that masks are not effective despite the overwhelming evidence in support of masks. Even the Reason article admits that masks are effective despite its misleading headline that suggests masks are not effective.
Twitter was a side project that took over the office.
I see a few ways where blockchain/token/NFT/DAO technology/structure makes sense for enterprises - unfortunately I can't elaborate.

In the U.S., VC's are the only ones that can contribute and speed up projects, since the SEC has no safe harbors that allow smaller startups to innovate. So either do not innovate or try with the worry of the SEC killing your project. It's best for smaller projects to not allow any U.S. investment, but even then you may have a problem.

It kind of seems as if the U.S. is protecting Wall Street from Web3 under the guise of protecting retail investors. There are a lot of players that are currently collecting "Economic Rent" that may be displaced by Web3 innovation.

But there is also a lot of hype and streams of B.S. on twitter, where I had to unsubscribe to a few of the gurus, and wondered if all they did is produce fodder for the masses Aping into Crypto, so they can be brought to slaughter.

Cheers
> So when Rust implemented this

For what it's worth, Python does not implement euclidean modulo (it implements flooring division aka "F-definition", proposed by Knuth), so Rust did not implement "this" it implemented an operation which, as far as I can tell, Python doesn't have.
What other online tech communities are there out there that I can check out? If you say this is such a tiny one, I’d love to see the “bigger than HN” community you must be referring to.
They could pay with warheads if that's the only thing they have.
i have so much love for SQLite. Consider me, getting my first internship at a startup. They have a bunch of contractors doing work for them as part of their service. The whitelabel application they got developed would export data in CSV. My job was to take that data and get some meaning from it. data included availability, locations, etc (imagine data about delivery drivers). I had no idea what to do but realized I could definitely parse this CSV through Python.

Once I had this data in Python I needed a way to analyze it. I never worked with Databases but decided to install a local copy of SQLite. The rest is history. I feel like I learned how to use databases in an organic way: by looking for a solution from raw data. A couple of queries later and python was exporting excel sheets with color coded boxes that indicated something based on the analysis I did.

Of course this could be done with any database application but the low weight nature of sqlite allowed me to prototype a solution so easily. We just backed up that native sqlite dump with the cloud and had an easy (super easy) solution to analyze raw data.
I think there's a class of crypto believers who see "Web3" as a political movement, a way to dilute or break the power of institutions like e.g. the fed, Facebook, etc. To them, the grapevine is a secret sauce that will magically eliminate centralized power.
A tangent, but the movie Hardcore Henry is a first-person perspective action movie in that vein. Once I got over the initial motion sickness it was insanely riveting.
You're not giving Hector Marcan enough credit. He was on Team Twiizers and fail0verflow; groups that did a lot of hacking to open up closed systems. It's not like he's unaware of the customer abuse that happens in the proprietary world.

The "look beyond freedom" quote probably should also be looked at with the context that he's talking about the FSF, which has an odd habit of being extremely absolutist in ways that actually hurt the user. Like, they'll point out that Wi-Fi cards with proprietary firmware are bad, but then endorse very similar hardware where the firmware blob is in ROM or some features are lasered off just to conform to the "proprietary ROMs don't count" rule. Marcan is arguing for creating a gradual sliding scale of "proprietary, user-hostile, and/or insecure" to "Free, user-respecting, and/or secure" and then looking at the trade-offs between them, rather than just creating a really high bar based on what made sense in the late 1980s and sticking to it forever.
Boring can also have bias, frequently in the form of damping bad news or a painful action.

On HN, shutdown and departure posts tend strongly in this direction. It's a general and widespread PR tactic.

There's also the distraction (or bread-and-circuses) model of propaganda. The former Page 3 Girl in the Sun, sport, celebrity gossip, or horse-race political coverage come to mind.
When they do casino like things like loot boxes to manipulate people’s dopamine responses, absolutely
Ask HN: What Operating System are you running on your main machine?
I'm just wondering, since judging by the amount of freeBSD posts, there are a lot of freeBSD users here.
I kind of get what you are saying syntactically, but the semantics are weird to me as the C version is only defined for integers in the first place so saying that the operator is truncating something is an awkward mental model.
I think no matter how you feel about Elon Musk, I feel it can sort of be universally appreciated how insane of a pivot/second act he's had where being a part of paypal's early days is basically a footnote.
Not quite correct. You have to report any accident and any of a specific list of serious incidents to the NTSB. You do not have to report other incidents or occurrences.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/830.5

Also note: a landing that required repairs would not necessarily be an accident either, assuming no serious injuries occurred. "Engine failure or damage limited to an engine if only one engine fails or is damaged, bent fairings or cowling, dented skin, small punctured holes in the skin or fabric, ground damage to rotor or propeller blades, and damage to landing gear, wheels, tires, flaps, engine accessories, brakes, or wingtips are not considered “substantial damage” for the purpose of this part." (Those minor damages, even if they made the airplane require repairs prior to further flight, are not enough to make that landing an accident.)
He's even a co-author on a paper that specifically uses Fortran <-> C interop. Which is the kind of work he's asking for here.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3418084

I'm aware that sometimes you can get your name on the paper by riding the other author's coattails, but it's interesting.
I see it as talking about skill set not renumeration.
The skill set differs from a normal engineer as it’s better to have a large breadth of knowledge and there’s more of an expectation to work hard and have a lot of ownership.
In Australia it seems like the going rate of equity for early engineers is south of 5% and if you get in truly early stage then what you said makes sense.
My point is that it's not impressive, it's just an old sales technique. Curiosity could have been designed for 20 years, but all NASA needs to do is say '2 years' and the project sounds like a resounding success if it fails in 10.

(It is extremely impressive to have rovers and helicopters traversing Mars.)
That may be what you want as a scientist, but often these experiences are only communicable via metaphor. The narrative helps with integration, and can also be deeply meaningful. One side doesn't exclude the other by any means. It is what it is, and is part of what makes the experience so intriguing for people -- particularly people who suffer from depression and have lost their inner mythos.
Or just bitcoin cash!
You just made me consider how gpt3 might impact things like school assignments.

e.g,. Have it write 75% of an essay and modify from there
OCaml gets all of this right already. Labels are optional (which is IMO better than the article suggestion). You can abbreviate to only the label if the parameter variable is the same as the label. You can omit the label for labelled parameters if you want, they just become unnamed positional parameters. And of course the main thing is type safety to help you get parameters right in many cases.

https://ocaml.org/manual/lablexamples.html https://dev.realworldocaml.org/variables-and-functions.html
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Well first no, the democrats position on trans rights for example is more left than lots of places just look at the UK. Even some position on healthcare don’t universally line up as centrist. But more importantly shouldn’t we define these terms by the political situation on the ground? The dems are at very least on the left wing of American politics
Any recommendations for a model better than my little old Nikon S9100?
I'm neither a photography expert nor a hobbyist but never liked using phones for photos, and the above old camera most of times does pretty much all I want in the Automatic position, so I certainly don't need a DSLR or anything professional, but the Magic Lantern software capabilities intrigue me, so I'd consider buying one, or a mirrorless one, possibly used.
I'd happily trade megapixels with faster shutter and less noisy sensor, particularly in low light conditions. Any suggestions? Thanks!