skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

For the Moon the (images) data seems to be bucketed with regard to pixels-per-degree (PPD), the more coarse data set being 64ppd data (finer resolution for the Moon goes at least as high as 512ppd that I have found). Sadly, my workflow (image editors, and Blender as you mentioned) are already straining with the 64ppd data-set so I did not try to go higher resolution. It means though that my Moon is wildly small — the lunar bases that seem to be a paltry 7x7 or 9x9 voxels are in fact the size of a small town.

I began with NASA's "CGI Moon Kit" [1] which, as I say, is 64ppd. There is both a "color data" image and an "elevation data" image (where the greyscale value of the image represents elevation). Polar data was garbage (and would look wildly distorted in my tile-based voxel algorithm so I confess that I tossed it — cropped everything outside 60-degrees latitude basically - I just limit fuel in the game to keep pesky kids from trying to get too deep into the polar regions).

Even at 64ppd and poles cropped, I still ended up with two images that were 23040 × 11264 pixels in size. This turned out to be a challenge for most of the image editing apps I have. Blender handled it (but barely).

With both color + elevation images I followed an online tutorial [2] meant for cartographers wanting to use Blender for relief shading. NASA's moon map had no shadows (probably a good thing). I was not going to try to real-time shade/light the voxel terrain so I settled on "burning in" the shadows with Blender. While my MacBook ran some 8 hours or so (over night) to generate the relief-shaded lunar map, the result was quite nice. As a result, it is near sunset everywhere on my Moon, ha ha.

With a relief-shaded image representing the color and a same-sized image representing the elevation, I wrote a custom app to read both files into memory and then generate the correct number of 512 x 512 tiles that contain both the elevation data and RGB data in a single raw file. Now I have 45 x 22 raw tiles covering the entire 64ppd Moon. The voxel algorithm uses simple math to figure out which tile a given voxel is to be found, reads the elevation/color data.

In hindsight, I could have output PNG files or something with alpha channel (where alpha would be interpreted as elevation). As it turned out, the Moon color was so close to greyscale that I ended up treating it as such and used only the green channel when creating my Moon tiles (so the tile data has only a single 8-bit value for elevation and a single 8-bit value for "color" per voxel — cut the raw tile size in half).

Still wrapping up the game [3]. I'll put the sources up on Github end of the month, I think.

[1] https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

[2] https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/blender-relief-tuto...

[2] https://mooncraft2000.com
Around Cleveland (Texas) a lot of these are going up in “unincorporated” areas where there is no “local” government overseeing codes. Obviously things like the NEC still apply via state laws and national liability case law.

But in Texas roads between houses and apartments are “Private” if all routes to access it from public roads are gated. Being a private road means the government won’t pay for any of its construction of maintenance, but also means that you can construct it however you want (only caring about liability for negligence etc).

In Michigan, there’s not even a requirement for the road to be gated, you just declare the road “private” and usually that will be indicated on the street sign.

Personally I’d love to get land in an unincorporated area, but definitely not under an HOA. The point of unincorporated land for me is to be able to build a house that’s “too small” or “the wrong color” or install a bunch of large equipment and use it responsibly.
Confirmed visual sightings are bound to undershoot the real number by a lot.
I agree covid is likely over. But as a vaxed person I would still avoid it. It took me 8 weeks for my cardiovascular system to return to baseline after omicron infection (metrics via Oura, apple watch).
You can spend anywhere from a few hundred to 10's of thousands, but a 1080p is readily available for a few hundred bucks, IR is a lot harder to come by affordably for high resolution.
It's silly to bring up Kent State in a discussion comparing openness to criticism between the US and China. Kent State is well documented, it's taught in school. Tiananmen Square (government troops murdering protesting students) is actively supressed in China.

Yes, the US has done bad things. And some of those bad things have been forgotten. But if you want to find out about them... the government is not going to prevent you from doing so. China is much worse in that regard.
Nice to see how this move can be an architectural blunder by itself.
I think it is because tech has begun to replace things, but we get strings attached making us resent it with time.

tech in the 80's went obsolete....but it didn't stop working because you stopped paying Atari a subscription....and it didn't suddenly decide to censor and block previous content through an 'update' cough downgrade*
Wow then Japan is going to have a super labor shortage as their agin population dies off.
Garmin sells several general purpose smart watches which compete directly against the Apple watch.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/sports-fitness/fashion-hybrid...
“we can take advantage of the next generation of electric vehicles [so] that a typical driver will save about $80 a month from not having to pay gas at the pump.”

- President Joe Biden, March 31, 2022
I'm still mad that we don't have flying cars ala "The Jetsons". But then again, I think "auto" accidents would become horrifically worse if we did, so there's that.

I watched news reports of the moon landing in 1969 as a kid. I played with tech throughout my youth ... converting a small, unused closet next to our garage as an electronics lab. I started with breadboarding (and occasionally, wirewrapping) 555 oscillators, and 741 op amps into weird circuits I'd read about.

About 50+ years later, I still build my own machines, albeit at the subsystem level versus the power supply and chip level. I am looking forward to working on automating image capture/processing for a telescope I bought last year.

I don't have a flying car (thank a deity), but I have an 8 inch telescope with automatic location and calibration. And a helluva lotta processing power, storage, and networking to do things with the images. I'm not saying I will run a 10/40 GbE optical fibre out to the deck where the telescope will sit ... but I'm not saying I won't. And yes, its nice to have 40GbE networking in my house (basement).

I've always viewed tech as a means to an end. I'm a scientist by training, a technologist and software person by choice. I've been an entrepreneur and many other things in my life. I see the tech as a way to do science more quickly, more accurately, and I really enjoy that it is an enabling function.

I got my start in HPC and supercomputing precisely because my simulations were taking too long on the workstations of the late 80s and early 90s. I stayed in HPC to build better/faster/stronger supers, and take advantage of the technological waves. Simulations that used to take a powerful (for the early 90s) supercomputer several hours, now take about a minute, on my laptop. Which has more processors, memory, and storage than the old super.

I think of technology as a wavefront that enables one to do more, better, and faster in its wake. Some people love the building of the tech, and designing new tech. Some like the applications. If you are bored with the building of tech, think of the applications that you could try, to help improve something real.
Becouse of the orbital lock it’s interesting to think of it like a shield for earth. I imagine a lot of those craters were by asteroids that would have hit earth, esp the perfectly round ones in the center. The oblong ones or ones towards the edges might have come at an angle that wouldn’t have hit earth. Seems like a fascinating way to study earths impact history if we end up exploring the dark side of the moon in more detail.
HN changes titles all the time. Especially when the title is a bit click baity. This one is like saying that the Chunnel connects Saigon to Scotland.
>"It should be easy for the office to provide a vastly superior working environment to the home"

There are a number of reasons why this argument doesn't make any sense

-commutes are expensive, and time consuming.

-surveillance produces a worse working experience, but is a major goal of office design.

-A desk with a computer on it is 90% of the way towards a fully equipped office.

-Many modern offices are also built with recreation in mind, equipped with ping pong tables and other such nonsense.

-I have come to believe that the primary business rationale for having people "in the office", is that it makes it harder for you to look for other jobs, and that process means that employees get more expensive.
If it is pretty clear that it did then you’ll have no problem finding sources that can prove that it occurred, that also take into account the targeted imprisonment that the black community has/had faced since emancipation. Anyone who looks at the black community in the US being destabilized and blames _welfare_ as the cause while ignoring that the legal system imprisons black men at a higher rate than white men regardless of the incident rate of crime is ignorant at best
Without the rhetorical flair: Who is the audience for this argument? I'm lost on that part.
Hmm, has anyone here met someone who espoused the argument "White people are inherently morally guilty due to racism"? I'm getting the sense that it might be mostly a strawman argument. Those I've actually talked to about anti-racism seem to fall into two camps; either white people (a very hard to define group of people, but mostly you know what I mean) aren't all racist, but they have benefited from past racism, so they hold extra power unjustly (though not due to a fault of their own); or they are "racist", but where "racist" is defined as prejudice + power, and we understand that many people are prejudiced due to societal and cultural messaging, so being "racist" doesn't mean you're individually guilty.
I am not saying that it is the case, but let's assume for a moment that China is "re-educating" the Uyghurs to help them "find decent jobs that could provide for them and their families" and so on. Do you think it is acceptable to force someone to undergo "re-education" against their will?
But Vyvanse is like already Adderall? Maybe not the special herbs and spices blend of Amphetamines like Adderall, but still.
> We can now buy an Arduino board for the price of a computer game, and make a flying drone.

I'm pretty sure you could do this 20 years ago, there just hadn't been that wave of marketing around microcontrollers as a hobby that happened around the time of Make magazine. $2 for a PIC and $45 for a programmer, maybe? Waiting excitedly for the next issue of Nuts & Volts? Idly flipping through the Jameco and Small Parts catalogs? Toolboxes filled with TTL?

The internet is certainly an advantage, but it also ain't too new.

edit: randomly posting the Small Parts catalog so we can reflect on and celebrate what was lost https://web.archive.org/web/20160323004150/http://www.smallp...

NO MINIMUM ORDER

Also, a shout out to American Science & Surplus, off to the suburbs after 84 years.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/10/13/american-science-sur...
Microsoft Has No Plans to Let You Move the Windows 11 Taskbar
Can you share some more about what you do? Looks interesting! Like sibling comment, I'm also looking for remote part-time work. Such opportunities seem relatively rare.
Pebble didn't get crushed by a big money monopoly.

Some people are willing to be "niche" and some people aren't. A company that produces 100 laptops per month for $100 profit each is not Apple. But that still means there is $10,000 per month left over after all salaries and other expenses. It's not a path to fame and glory, so few are interested. But it could sustain a very small company for a long time outside the world of monpolies and big money.

But if you've figured out how to produce 5 laptops per day, 20 days every month, you're in a strange space. That's not a garage operation. So why not 50 per day? Then the eternal quest for growth leads you back into the world of monopolies and big money.
I agree. I think the prices we see now are probably more "correct", and things were just very cheap in the past. But I also think that there's some inflation going on from pent-up savings. Flights, credit card points, hotels, etc. coupled with corporations raising prices to offset losses in 2020-2021. I'm also curious about a race condition with wages and prices. Forget the tech wages because those are probably propping up equity markets and housing markets, but day-to-day stuff where someone was making $15/hour and now they're making $20/hour or more with that change happening over the course of a year and for millions, well, they can afford the higher prices... I'd love to read something more educated on that topic though. I have an intuition (race condition or at least partial race condition) but I haven't studied the specific economics of that. I always assumed you'd get inflation but not corresponding wage increases. I guess if the west is able to prop up currencies, it's fine? Kind of like living in Iceland except everywhere.

For example, I live in Ohio. Can someone explain to me why I would expect a swordfish steak or tuna steak or salmon to be cheap whatsoever? And that's still not pricing in offsets needed from c02 emissions. Chicken on the other hand? Yea that should be very cheap and very fresh.

We need more local suppliers. Grow a victory garden. Last season we had so many onions. I wish I could have had a neighborhood farmer's market. But rules. Regulations. Etc.
The moment the dev.to nonsense* folk discover you, it's gonna be useless.

*Newly dev.to RSS feed is 90% either pill promotion or zero value "my first post" notifications. Or posts in languages I don't speak and have no way to filter out.
Our search engine does not use Google results at all.

On the app (the subject of this post), we are actually not forking any browser. From the bottom section on how it is built:

"DuckDuckGo for Mac does not fork Chromium (or anything else). Instead, we use the rendering engine that comes with macOS...We are building everything else from scratch. So beyond rendering, all the code is ours – written by DuckDuckGo engineers with privacy, security, and simplicity front of mind. This means we don’t have the cruft and clutter that has accumulated in browsers over the years, both in code and design, giving you a modern look and feel and a faster speed."
I agree. In many places you have to pick a party to be able to participate in their primary. So officially you might be listed as a certain party, but still be "independent" as you describe.
There is no lack of very hard evidence that racism is wrong, but there is a lack of ways to convince certain groups of people that they are wrong and that they should change their ways. To add to that: there are quite a few politicians and political parties that actively push these buttons to drive the divisions that help them to stay in power.
> Value of the dollar relative to a foreign currency is very different metric than value of a dollar relative to a real asset.

Which is why it's compared to a basket of currencies instead of a single one.

The USD, Yuan, Yen, Euro, GBP, and Rupee cover like 70% of the world's GDP. Maybe throw in the CHF because it's stable.
Kepler-186 is a red dwarf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-186

The planet is therefor closer to its star but apparently it may not be tidally locked:

> The four innermost planets are probably tidally locked, but Kepler-186f is in a higher orbit, where the star's tidal effects are much weaker, so the time could have been insufficient for its spin to slow down significantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-186f
Ditto on the "certain female family member who insists that she remembers things word-for-word". When she recounts her meeting with a friend it is needlessly tedious (I try to be a good listener of course). Complains that my recollections are too vague and she wants to know what really happened and is frustrated I won't give her details.

I think a large part of it is just that you store what is important to you. To me the day-to-day politeness is just filler. I don't care if they had black coffee or a latte. If someone was struggling with something and poured out their heart over multiple conversations, I'm going to remember what arguments and concerns they had and the mental model I built up around that situation. The filler is just unimportant and doesn't stick around.

My wife is the opposite. Signs of weakness are an embarrassment to be forgotten. She lives for the day-to-day.
Everything becomes less cool once you know it.

Since you mentioned Star Trek, I've been a lifelong enthusiast of Trek. The new stuff (junk) notwithstanding, I'm totally over Star Trek. I've seen every episode who knows how many times. Been there, done that, got the tee shirt.

Tech is no different, or at least specialized facets of tech are no different.

This is exactly why I have recently pivoted from web development to working on a hardware project and using C++. It provides that same excitement I had back when I was first learning to code. Though right now it's just my own thing, I'm solving a tangible problem and get to learn things like writing native code, designing circuit boards, working with a microcontroller, using OpenSCAD, and so forth. Even if it goes no further than a toy prototype, it's been a lot of (albeit expensive) fun. Just the moment of receiving a shipment of PCBs that I designed, that were now manufactured at a factory, that actually worked upon assembly, was an exquisite feeling.

Tech is many things. I think if anyone is bored and there's nothing like family obligations holding them back, they should consider branching out into something else that might satisfy that itch. If you've just stuck to things like JavaScript and Ruby, don't think that you can't do something like program microcontrollers with C++.

On the other hand, I really do think that the concept of "web scale" has made the field far less fun. We all love to scoff at buzzwords, yet we are the greatest purveyors of buzzwords and cargo-culting technology.

Kubernetes or GTFO. Rust or GTFO. Who uses Wepback anymore, bruh? I think my grandpa used AngularJS. Aren't SPAs a thing from like 2006? There's no way a Rails app can scale, bruh. Do you even BDD, bruh? Who seriously doesn't use Typescript nowadays? Every successful startup uses blockchain now with AI. Microservices are pointless without microfrontends. You mean you're not even using LiveView?

/s

It's like we no longer believe that you can just write something however you want and then do the work to scale them up if the time ever comes. Everything needs to be shiny new cool-tech out of the gate and compete with as much traffic as The Google.

Yeah, it was always kind of that way, but I think it's a lot worse than when I first got into the field.

Oh, and there's also the possibility that it's becoming increasingly difficult to get startups off the ground without already having revenue to start with. What happened to the garage-startup? You don't really hear about those anymore. Granted, I've yet to start a startup, but my impression is that nowadays investors are playing the game so safe that Jobs and Woz might have never achieved velocity.

We need to get over ourselves a bit, which is why I think it would actually be a good thing if the tech world could see another correction. We haven't had a meaningful correction since the dotcom bubble.
I am very interested in the topic, and have been looking into it for ages. I think most people vastly exaggerate their ability to visualize anything. Most people can't really hold a square or a sphere in their mind, rotate it, or change colors. The only people who truly can are really good artists. My point - you may be mis-diagnosing yourself, especially since aphantasia doesn't seem to have clear tests or definitions. How could it, if a verifiable test would be to ask a person to draw what they see, and obviously that confuses the whole test with one's art skill.
The drastically increasing cost of rent, even in areas with lots of land, good Internet, an very few building restrictions has a much higher impact for most people then the price of gas.
convenience is not all there is to satisfaction....I feel that you are comparing convenience vs satisfaction.

people are not satisfied. they are convenienced.
>>> Go fix your own country first before pointing at others.

>> Should the US have followed your advice during WWII? After all, slavery was quite a sin that hasn't yet been fully atoned for, and even less so in the 40s.

> Yes.

Even if that meant the Nazis won or achieved a negotiated peace that left them in power (e.g. no Nuremberg trials, no hangings)?
I'm on board for arguing that racism is bad because it's collective guilt (and, by extension, collective punishment).

What you find though is that most people aren't interested in ethical arguments. They're interested in preserving the power structures they have benefited and continue to benefit from. They see empowering another group as taking something away from their group. In the US in particular, fear is a huge motivator here. There's also a touch of projection: many fear some form of retribution from the newly-empowered group because, well, that's probably what they would do. It's kind of a self-report.

But let's say you manage to convince people of the evils of collective guilt and punishment. Let's see if that extends to the treatment of Palestinians. Gaza is the world's largest open-air prison [1].

As an aside, this is really the point of the Republican censorship crusade against what it calls "critical race theory" because Republicans don't want people to be educated in system racism and collective punishment. That's no way to preserve a power structure.

It's also worth pointing out that a bunch of states have laws on the books that teachers cannot disparage Israel (eg [2]).

[1]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
I’ve seen takes where expecting immigrants to integrate is considered racist.

Maybe I’m just a racist, but when a fellow Canadian with a heavy South Asian accent is calling me buddy and talking about going to the lake/the leafs suck, I feel good about my country.

Compare to the problems in the UK where you have no-go areas in certain cities (overblown but it happens) and generations that won’t even attempt to fit in to the dominant culture. That said, the UK is much more xenophobic than Canada wrt nationality.
The text looked crisp on Windows, but on Mac the PPI was too low, so it was barely readable. The frustrating thing is that Mac used to have settings that would fix this problem, but they removed them a while ago. I ran the monitor at 1440p, not at a lower resolution.
>Sure, if you wave your hands and say that your side is obviously right about the issues at the heart of a political dispute, you can make any issue seem manufactured. You should go to India and tell the Hindus and the Muslims that they’re both wrong about their “imaginary friends” and that their dispute is a manufactured triviality.

Take it from the child of an Ahmedi who left Pakistan in 1986. When _you’re_ the wedge issue, you don’t have many other choices.