skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. To provide some context, my main impetus for creating this map was to facilitate my interest in topographic prominence [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence].

Prominence requires finding a mountain's "key saddle" -- the pass that connects the mountain to higher ground. This may be an unremarkable point hundreds of miles away, often with several candidates whose elevations differ by only a few meters. Oilslick was designed with the goal of helping locate these points and intuit their significance. The color banding helps visualize the saddle 'pinch points' with relative ease, and the high-contrast color ramp enables the necessary fine discernment in elevation values, even for points located far apart.

You can peruse my (very preliminary, mostly mothballed) prominence work here [http://mrgris.com:10011/summits/?max=2500]

What I didn't expect was that the end result would be so aesthetically pleasing, almost dazzling. I love how it brings out subtle geological features and big-picture structure and relationships between landforms that don't show through in traditional topographic maps.

I share some of the criticisms I've read here. The zig-zag points on the ramp where the brightness must double back create contrast 'dead zones' where it's hard to interpret what's going on. Sea level areas are very dark and the actual coastline is hard to discern. Partly this is from practical limitations of not using a coastline mask in addition to the raw elevation dataset -- I don't actually know whether a point is land or water. But nevertheless there is interesting detail in these coastal areas that oilslick currently doesn't do justice to.

Overall it's been great to read the reactions here and see some people's perception of our world getting warped for the better.
IPv6 had higher latency than IPv4 last time I measured.

It depends very much on which network, though.
Here is the link to Big Search repo on Github : https://github.com/garywill/BigSearch
Dehydration is brutal. I am from the south of india and I understand heat related casualties all too well. It is humidity that is the saving grace there. Sweat helps regulate body temperature and cools it down. It also reminds us to keep drinking water and lots of it.

I have also heard that the reason we have a lot of spices and peppers and tamarind in our traditional cuisine is because it helps us sweat that cools the body to aid in body temperature regulation.

I still remember my grandmother asking me not to go to the terrace and my 5-6 year brain was like ‘challenge accepted!’…I still recall the painful blisters that popped up like tiny transparent domes on the soles of my bare feet minutes after I came back to shade.

No one understands desert heat like the Bedouins. I worked with someone who was into greyhound rescue. They were popular with the desert tribes for hunting/racing and he also explained how these dogs had evolved to be just a set of legs and lungs and tiny heart. To survive extreme temperatures.

I also found out years later that I have a genetic condition where I can’t regulate inner temperature due to high external heat. (I also can’t climb beyond 6000 ft altitude without experiencing altitude sickness. I believe it’s the same reason) My grandfather used to drop down when mercury hit 40 C and he always called it ‘sunstroking’…in the states, it was declared ‘sun poisoning’..but I was pretty sure it’s genetic(confirmed) and always stayed in the shade.

Of course..we all delightedly loved belting out Kipling..(who we ‘loved to hate’) and his oft quipped line of “Mad Dogs and English Men” ..it was later immortalized by Noel Coward..the poor dear would have been canceled today for https://youtu.be/8tJjwBWBbX4

There might be some truth to it tho’ because lack of melanin causes pain in response to what’s akin to their degree burns to Caucasian skin which releases a surfeit of endorphins …which delays them from getting under shade until it’s too late.

The thing about hiking(and climbing) is that experienced outdoors people know that you can only advance half as much as your energy and water reserves will permit. And daylight. Coming downhill is just as crucial as going up.
Off-topic but I would like to share with all of you a proposal from Mark Nottingham on HTTP cache channels[1]. Sadly it went nowhere but in my opinion was and still is very promising idea.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nottingham-http-...
> Think about this way: why do startups start young, idealistic and innovative only to eventually grow more and more corporate and litigious in nature?

I submit that people scale poorly.

Sure, Gall's Law[1], but note an empirical military truth: people in quantity do not accomplish tasks without a loss of individuality and a heavy authoritarian structure.

The U.S. military is also hugely expensive and wildly inefficient. Why are SpecOps teams all? Less is more.

Attempts to externalize and codify successes within corporate policies are worthwhile, but have a half-life associated with them as people turn over and contexts shift.

In summary, all human organizations tend toward the Tower of Babel. Lack of scalabilty is intrinsic. We can stop wondering.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_...
Also, as I understand it OTRv4 intentionally does not target multi-device scenarios so it seems unlikely to gain any wider adoption for the kind of use cases XMPP and Matrix target, where being able to see your chats on other devices is considered a feature and not a security issue.
"It’s because early stage companies tend to hire people who prioritize the company’s well being and mature companies tend to hire people who prioritize their personal gain"
This has not been my experience at all. The people I know involved in start ups are seeking adventure and personal wealth. The people who stay with the company are focused refining what they have to be the best thing it can be.
The coracles are still around. You can drive card and bikes around, albeit within a reasonable distance. I am from Kamalapura, which is 4km from the Lotus Mahal. A lot has changed in Hampi, but the stalls and hawkers are gone from the ruins. The Tungabhadra still flows strong, and the Archeological Society has done some good work, some things are really improved. There's a good rock climbing community around there. And the government has shifted a "zoo" to the Bear Sanctuary and it's now a wildlife preserve. Apparently the leopards are also returning because of Covid (one of the positive things).

I have a cousin who has an instagram channel you'll love: @hampi_stories. He's a photographer who goes to Hampi every weekend.

If you ever return, hit me up. I use this handle everywhere. I can introduce you to the Dean of the Hampi university, who is a family friend. No one knows Hampi like he does.

I'm writing a book on the Rayas. It's a lot of work because I want to write it in a vein that skips ahead and behind, with scenes that intertwine stories from before it's most famous king, Krishnadevaraya, and scenes of his own time. It's one of my favourite places. I'm glad you loved visiting.
Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone?
When I search for phones with 3GB+ RAM and <=140mm height, there's only iPhone SE, iPhone 12 mini, and iPhone 13 mini.

The fact that Apple released 3 phones in 3 years with this form factor shows me that it is a profitable market segment and that there is demand.

Why is there no Android equivalent?

https://m.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&nHeightMax...
> My argument is that these things are highly related. That is, lifting effectively makes lifting consistently much easier--if you're seeing continued, measurable progress (every time you lift your numbers go up--how exciting!)

I've found that I don't experience this at all. I went from being extremely weak to benching as much as I weighed, but once the college program that I participated in was done I didn't continue, because for me it was always a chore and remained so.

Nowadays I swim, because it's enjoyable for the sake of it. Also I have a small child now, so most of my daily exercise just sort of happens.

I have friends who enjoy this progress, pushing themselves to do more etc. - I can't relate to this at all.

Bottom line is that there's a chunk of the population that doesn't feel this at all and it's better that they exercise using VR than not at all.
This is just using a "multi-band" colormap, no? I thought it would do something clever with shading or something but this is just a scale that instead of going 0-1 goes 0-1-0-1-0-1... while rotating hue. It seems to have a lot of perceptual artifacts/nonuniformities, like you would get a totally different feel from some areas if the scale was shifted 500m.

It does nicely highlight mountain ranges/areas of rough terrain.
Why do you need to hire extra people to manage a cloud storage account with two file uploads per week?
Deleting data in response to a GDPR request is explicitly illegal under the GDPR.
> ... and don’t quite make it to the NFL, then quitting early isn’t a great idea.

aren't we cursed by our power of hindsight in which we play both judge and jury with how we define success. Making poor/bad/terrible choices and then go on living without obsessing about them seems simply a way of coping.

We're cursed because it matters how we see ourselves but also how others view us affects our perception. And we constantly have to reintegrate societies view with our own. Adding insult to injury: the yardstick used by society is also shifting over time so actions are not future proof. (think about reality vs. myth in characters like Nero or Machiavelli and how long it takes to correct some of the believes previously held by society against new evidence)

Problem with judging ourselves is our vantage point to do so correctly is even worse than society. Because a) we're still alive, b) we're biased, c) we don't have the distance of time d) observers-effect.

If we're unhappy but alive we are able to try harder and hope for a better future, or even doing nothing and sitting it out. We can defer our judgement until our position has improved enough to yield a better outcome.

Then time itself is a problem when applying the yardstick to ourselves because we're unable to make a final and ultimate statement until we have no more capacity to improve our odds (are dead, but even after our death our choices might have affected the lives of our offsprings so they became an ultimate hero or a villain).

> If someone loves getting a PhD, get’s the stipend, enjoys the process

It's actually survivorship bias because the person we could've been if had gotten our shot never existed. The mediocre risk-averse choice has killed that possible universe in which this person could have thrived. They became a casualty of the mediocre.

If that person instead of taking the mediocre, and least risky path dropped out, and as a result struggled with their environment, formed toxic habits, then recovered, reformed, bettered themselves, wrote an influential book to puzzle and better humanity for the next 500 years ... How would that (successful) person judge how mediocre they could have turned out instead? And would they still say it would have been better not to suffer?

Personally I think none of this matters. If a tree falls in a forest ...
PGP/SSH is surely the usable here as a 2fa. Have maintainers (or at the least owners) demonstrate their identity with both email and a key.
The MSM doesnt care because it has little geopolitical significance to the west.

It wouldnt care about the Uyghurs either if stirring up ethnic strife on borderlands weren't such a cheap and effective way of sapping the strength of rival powers.

Or Israel, if it didnt wield such enormous influence within the United States.
> The feeling that one owns the partial of the anime they love is really important.

If made by the company behind the anime, then maybe. If made by some third party in a copyright infringing manner, then that most certainly isn't applicable, which i've seen be a problem with the NFT space insofar.

> In that sense, I thought NFT also could appeal especially for those digital animes because there is no other way to get the same feeling.

How about physical collectibles? Plushies, keychains, figurines, posters, cosplay outfits, that sorts of stuff. Seems like many video games, cartoons and anime out there all have that in some capacity, unless it's very niche and merch is never made.

Actually, it seems like a pretty interesting space, for example, the Potekoro Astolfo bean plushies from the Fate anime series seem to go for about 300-400$ nowadays.

I agree that a lot of it is sentimental value, but i'm not sure that non fungible things will capture people's attention quite as much, or will feel the same as something physical that you can put on a shelf or whatever people do.
Ask HN: Code commit % rate at your company?
I bang on about Software Literacy as a concept a lot - that software is a new form of literacy just like writing itself is a technology, and I was wondering how to measure this. So some estimates are 40M programmers globally - which is 1/200 people globally (pretty low rate). But what about those nice middle class (western) companies most of us work in. What's your estimate of people who have for example, committed code to the company repo(s) in the past month?
Someone translated the Krishnadevaraya book into English. It's on Amazon as I Krishnadevaraya. I found it rather lacklustre tbh. I have about every book on Hampi you can find, and as recollections go, Nilakantashastry is good. The ASI publications are impressively well done. I have the entire collection, but I have not gone through it fully.
> Would you say that Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, or HCL are better than TCS?

TCS is very ceremonious, and bureaucratic on top of all other bads of giant outsourcing companies.
Plenty of forest, but relatively little forest away from well marked trails, urban developments and authorities that don't think people should be living in forests.
I occasionally have neck issues. I assume it is bad posture. I do some simple exercises for a few days and it goes away for a few months.

Tilt forward and back, 10 times, left to right. Then head rolls.
Yup, just as expected - four paragraphs accusing me of not being orthodox enough, finishing up with calling me a heretic.

Look up how black people go camping less, how they are better at sprinting than other races, etc.

Do you think a certain race simply not biking that much is so dangerous of a thought, it should be illegal to even think about it and should result in one being called epithets, as you just did?

Ridiculous.
Oh ho! Hello hello. Where are you from? I come from Kamalapura, near the Lotus Mahal.
Can you comment on that "force"?
Congressman’s warning 80 years after Japanese American incarceration
Yet it's not outside of the Law. At least in Europe, they MUST give all your data back.
Geosynced DEMs prepped to feed into microwave link design software can cost a lot of money. I knew one engineer who was sent up in a special plane they found just to photograph a remote region and then he matched the elevation data by hand for all the routes. I don't know what the non commercial uses are for this data but I suspect it would be otherwise prohibitively expensive without the CC4.0 license so I am happy for whomever it benefits.
Always jumping to the extreme is tiresome. Plenty of disclosure laws have facility for covering reasonable or excessive costs.
I'm personally much more worried about width not height... And it seems only Sony has some to offer.
Yep. Hence the handle @stonecharioteer, which I use everywhere.

Our village has several bits that have assimilated the empire. I remember we needed the permission of the Archaeological Society of India to change our front door since the door itself was 200 years old. At one point we didn't have a door because we were waiting for permission.
The author does say they have a wife. But I know what you mean – I took my Quest to my sister's over Christmas and there were many near-misses with a two-year old not understanding the adult is not playing with them. If I had young kids I would probably want to put a lock on the door for when I'm going to use it.
You should be over a hundred now. If not I recommend reply to people who commented on your question.
Profit isn't the main distorting thing here, the root is social pressure and ideological belief.
> If I argue that Rust is better than Pearl am I "putting down" Pearl programmers?

Only if you come in telling the Perl programmers that they can’t possibly have written useful code. Which is what i hear when zmmmmm says

> I actually started bulking up in my upper arms for the first time in my life.

and you say

> No you didn’t

Or when Kiro says,

> Pistol Whip is great for building leg muscles

and you say

> bodyweight squats don't make you stronger.

To give you the benefit of the doubt, maybe you are using some very specific definition of the word strong. But it’s not the definition that the rest of us are using. Body weight exercise can absolutely help folks reach all kinds of fitness and life goals, which is all we’re trying to say here.

Plus as some folks have pointed out, there’s no reason you can’t wear some weights in VR either.

So yeah, it’s fine to extol the virtues of weight training, but you’re sounding to me like a Rust programmer saying Perl can’t possibly be used to save time or practice your problem solving.
> Zuckerberg is sitting in his office deciding which country to bring genocide to when it's absurd to think he has made a decision to that effect

I don't find it absurd at all that one of the most powerful people on earth would make such decisions.

The point is not to give one person such power, not for us to decide if he is just an awkward mostly harmless geek (as portrayed in a movie) or not.
I don’t think it belongs here considering it seems to be making so many claims without any sources.
Cool! For anyone interested in this type of stuff, and the companies working on this - this is a pretty good website: https://insider.fitt.co/at-home-injuries-the-rise-of-ai-trai....
Anatomy of a Russian False Flag
The Historicrat is an excellent channel on YT, which delves deeply into the earliest settled societies. I'd recommend it as a counterpart to the Fall of Civilisations podcasts on Sumeria and the Bronze Age Collapse.
Things recently changed in the UK with regards to insurance companies:

The biggest shake-up to the insurance industry for decades
takes place on Saturday, when insurers will be banned from
quoting policyholders a higher price to renew their home
or motor insurance than they would offer a new customer.
I need a working web browser and support for mandatory apps like online banking two factor.
Shades of DevOps – Related Job Titles
The word "need" is misplaced. It's not about need. It's about whether the upside of the additional energy is bigger than the downside of having to build the thing out. You're making an assumption that that upside is too small relative to that downside.
It is laughable to put something working this badly into your "service" at all.

I realize this was probably 'forced' on some engineers at Google, but I'd still be embarrassed to say I've had a hand in this. A bit like being a supporting character in the worst movie of the year.

At what point do you threaten to quit over being forced to ship crap like automatic scanning of people's private files? I am unable to empathize here at all.
> Sometimes fools are parted with their money and the recipients go on to do things beneficial to society.

A common thread with NFT projects is lying and rug pulling[1]. Everything about this movement comes back to trying to make an easy buck, it’s a stretch to claim this could be beneficial to society[2]:

> (…) made off with $30,000 and wrote that the charity to which they'd promised to donate "will instead now be... my bank account".

[1]: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?theme=rugPull

[2]: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?theme=rugPull&id=2022-02-06-2
Isn't land being owned by your state, and people/companies only being allowed to rent rather than buy it, pretty much the opposite of privatization? It sounds to me like Land Value Tax taken to its logical extreme.
I like that I can use an iPhone SE with just one hand because it's short enough to reach the top with my thumb. That comes in very handy when you're carrying a sleeping baby.
Ethical is not the right question here, we simply want it to crash less and kill less people
> This kind of thing is also pretty much standard for most programming languages today

No, it is not. Have a look at java, golang or rust.
None of those languages advocate for embedding deps in your source tree as it's quite clearly a terrible anti-pattern to follow.

I wouldn't consider how JavaScript does stuff a good example.
In high density cities, the idea of covering the unsightly parking and keep the people and greenery out into the sun is a no brainer. It's even better for the car.

But in some cities, for example highly priced London areas, people have been starting to do the opposite: they dig lavish basements at enormous expense and keep large front lawns and wide streets with ample parking spaces, all in the name of preservation of the area's "character", as understood by the local council doing the permitting. Humans are a wierd bunch.
> Today, processes are nearly always launched by other programs, but despite this, must still serialize the argument array into a string as though a human had typed it out.

Author seems to make assumption that an argument array is the fundamental form of a command-line, leading to this weird thinking that on Windows you need extra layer of serialization. But I'm not convinced that is actually the case, I'd view it more like you have a command-line expression and on unixy systems you serialize it as an array and on windows as a string, but neither is really more fundamental form.
Yes you are puttning people down, even thick skinned Perl programmers, you do not show perspective. Most people will not care and just ignore you, the ones who argue with will at best have an interest in you explaining what you mean in a meaningfull way.

Responding with "well that's just your opinion man" is tiresome. You need to understand who you are having a discussing with. I know no one who cares about strength outside the training nerds, if that is your argument that strength is important and you need to prioritze it. Then you have to be really humble, and show how that can be. Do not say Perl sucks to make that point.
Well said, we should team up!
I presume they're not suggesting anyone pays license fees to use tides
Noticed this also! Always assumed had bad luck with a batch or it was just sitting at the airport shop for too long. So my taste did not fool me! Thanks for the explanation. Must now find a way to order cross country without melting...
My favorite cellular automata has to be Wireworld. It has the interesting property that not only you can easily implement logic gates in it with very minimal rules, but it's also intuitive in that is shows electrons flowing in wires. It's powerful enough that you can build a computer in it and (sort of) understand it: https://www.quinapalus.com/wires11.html

Shameless plug: Years ago I wrote a widget where you can play around with Wireworld here: https://quiz.pixels.camp/archive/2017-2-no-wires-119ee898-c9...
I'm not sure why would anyone like what Cadbury sells in the UK. Almost any European brand of chocolate is better than Cadbury, which is extremely sweet. I understand I may be biased not being British, but still.