skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper does exactly that: download a DEM height map and do shading from that. What they argue is that you can customize the amount of detail of the terrain to make it look hand-made (since an artist shading by hand wouldn't be able to interpret small variations and flat areas of the contour plot as well).
Drones and general aviation are obvious markets. Batteries like this will initially be limited in supply and expensive. So targeting them at niche markets makes sense.

There are already a few certified planes flying and a few drones that are getting close to that. E.g. the Beta that flew in the New York area last week. And there will be a lot more in a few years. Current state of the art is a usable but not very long range for electrical planes. 200-250 miles seems to be the maximum range currently and some planes barely get to 100 miles.

Something that not everyone seems to grasp is that planes expend a lot of energy going up but then a lot less cruising from A to B and they can actually recover some energy going down. So, increasing the battery capacity without increasing the weight means you extend the cruise phase of the flight. The take off energy expense is kind of a constant that is mostly dependent on the weight.

Doubling the capacity might extend ranges to more than double what they are currently. A 1200 wh/kg aviation battery would more than quadruple current ranges. That's nice of course if you can get to 1000+ miles. But a more logical thing to do would be to cut the weight by e.g. half and still more than double the range. Also, current electrical planes sacrifice a lot of their maximum takeoff weight for batteries. Losing half that, increases their useful payload size and utility considerably. You can turn a four person plane into an eight person plane, for example. And still extend the range a little too.

I think Elon Musk called out 400wh/kg as the threshold that he considers as a minimum. This more than triples that. More than because of the outlined effects on cruise.
Sometimes, but not always: it likely depends on the style of the map and how accurate it is as well I think, and maybe depends on people's perception: thanks to computer UI buttons from the 90s, it is common for upper and left-most surfaces/bevels to be lighter, so there is some assumption there.

i.e. I think this type of thing:
https://cartographart.com/minimalist/iceland_2_5k_orth_occlu...

works well, but that's not really a detailed map with normal cartographic details like roads and towns on overlaid with relief shading, so difficult to say.

However even if you do try and do it accurately, places on the equator are likely troublesome: i.e. the whole of Africa or something: you're unlikely to want to do the fully-accurate thing there of above the equator (or where the sun is) being shadowed from the south and below the equator being shadowed from the north, it'll likely be confusing in the middle.
I expect they would as well. However, I was replying to a comment that claimed this drug or something similar could be the solution to obesity and I have serious doubts about that. An improvement in health and longevity, even if it's substantial, is not the same as a solution. For example, if we discovered a drug that delayed severe illness/death from cancer for 5 years, it certainly wouldn't be called a solution to cancer. It would be amazing for sure, but that doesn't solve the cancer problem.
> “This is how they’re going to get rid of another 10 or 20,000 people.”

Nailed it there.
I didn't noticed that :-) Thank you for commenting me correctly!
I think it depends on context, I was not bullied as a teenager or adult, so in those cases, I don't know what an efficient response would be, but I guess the reason I was not is because I learned to give off a certain kind of vibe.

I was bullied a lot as a young child, and it took me a while to learn that bullies are not reasonable people to whom one can present a rational set of arguments.

There was a kid in our class who would "explode", and I saw how it was a pastime for some of the other kids to get this kid to blow up, so he was bullied because of his reaction (too strong).

I was also bullied because of my reaction (presenting arguments, explaining why it should stop (too weak)).

For me, the right measure of response, where it is painful for the bully, while not being that interesting to the audience, worked.
At some point, I understood that the only way to avoid being bullied, was to bully the bully, they would leave me alone when they were scared of me.

I've never been a particularly strong person, so I couldn't stand up to a bully in a fair fight. But I could run at them from behind and throw my arm around their neck and bring them to the floor in a choke-hold, so that's what I did, out of nowhere, on several random occasions when no adults were around.

My day always told me, never to start a fight, but that I always had his blessing in ending it. I couldn't take his advice straight on, since I couldn't end a fight, but, on the other hand, it's not a fight if the other guy never gets a chance to throw a punch, right?

Bullies left me alone, I left them alone. Probably would get kicked out of school trying to pull that stuff today?

I don't know if I recovered, I guess in retrospect, I see why I was bullied, I'm different, on the spectrum, My interests were different, I used different words, I was (and still am) unable to understand social context..
Kids bully to establish a social hierarchy, being "against" something is an easy way to belong to a group, it's much easier to be against something or someone than to find common interests to form a group around.

Hatred and opposition is simpler and stronger drivers for group behavior, and so, there must be someone to bully for the group to exist.. If there's no enemy, there's no group, no identity.. We cannot be _us_ without there being a _them_, and _they_ are characterized by being _different_.

In my opinion, countries exist for the same reason. Some human instinct to belong to a group.'

I guess that realization, that bullying must exist, not because of the bullied, but for the group, it made it be not about _me_, I was simply a different one, and an easy target, so I became an expensive target, and bullying stopped, and I've forgiven them, they couldn't have done differently, human behavior..
Free Up Disk Space on macOS
Not a lawyer, but it's up to you and your system. There are ways to stop updates and also to stop that nagging. Google a bit, use wintweak ...

And then, there are ways to set the update time and to postpone that.

That dark pattern is as long you have internet. No internet, another Button "no" will appear.

I'm always on Windows. The first things I do after a fresh install is to remove bloatware (with scripts, or Software debloater, switch off the the telemetry (google for winaero, or shut up windows), switch off the auto reboot (google for a way to stop win10 reboot after updates. The one where you have to replace REBOOT.AC and other files is the proper one) and creating a fresh profile without the bloatware, delete the first created Profile. Takes around 15mins of time.

Have fun, M8!
RTK Query Loader 1.0.0 released
Version 1.0.0 of RTK Query Loader was just released. RTK Query Loader is a solution for creating reusable, extendable and transformable loaders for use with RTK Query. You can also use other similar libraries with RTK Query.
> an art form

Which is why the linked Daniel Huffman's technique employed the convincing results of Blender.
Could you imagine your Facebook using parents and grandparents donning a VR headset and regularly interacting with the metaverse? I couldn't, not unless the technology improved dramatically to the point where the headset more closely resembled glasses than yuppie techno goggles. I can't see that happening anytime soon, which is a problem if they're trying to build something with mainstream appeal.
The people sucked into MLMs are not the "sales team", they are the customer.
> Being inspired by Instagram is fine...

Mostly its not inspiration. Just chewing of what is trendy, to fits in narrative and conformity. To be liked. Have more attention, more time qlued to screen...
As the saying goes, if you owe the bank a million, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a billion, the bank has a problem.

If 45% of a country's adult population are somehow unable to "adapt to the new economic reality" then this is definitely a policy problem and not just a matter of "personal responsibility".

> why does the responsibility of one's life and financial wellbeing fall onto the govt, rather than themselves?

What is a government for if not that?
Css in JS (as in, inline styles) is just going to be a lot worse than class names because JS is fundamentally performance bottlenecked way harder than CSS is.
You don't even have to change the audio data. Just alter the packet pace slightly to encode the data. That way a cold trace like OP's is useless.
Strong recommendation to listen to this podcast (season 1 of it):
https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-dream

They discuss exactly this question in a lot of detail. The FTC had started to go after some early MLMs, but then strong lobbying and political connections created a situation where you could have a "legal MLM" by following some rules, and the rules were basically written by Amway.
A non-dairy product may not be advertised as butter. This is to prevent the margarine companies from mislabeling their products as butter. Because of this, peanut butter cannot be labeled butter.

So why cheese? We don't really know.

Some theories:

- possible "germanization" of a Surinamese dish/product "Pinda-Käse"

- A product called pindadokun which literally was a block of pounded peanut that could be sliced, like with cheese

- When Calve marketed their peanut butter (Rising in popularity due to WW2), they were barred from marketing it as pindaboter, and instead used pindakaas.
These kind of libraries are always easy to spot in the wild because of their transitions on things like modals and action sheets don’t match native. They’re just not as smooth.
I'm a data journalist and I live in a village in Kerala, a state in southern India.

We're getting into summer here, so I wanted to see how hot villages in Kerala get in general, and how the temperatures now compare to 10 or so years ago.

Made use of satellite data for my analysis, mainly land surface temperature data from MODIS.

Was thinking of using Google Earth Engine for this story, but decided to go with Planetary Computer since it's Python-centric and I'm more familiar with that language. (GEE is more javascript-oriented.)

Pretty sure earth/geo/environment science guys won't be happy with my methodology, but hopefully there's enough of a logic to it for the story to be acceptable as a basic analysis.

You can see my code at the github repo (https://github.com/shijithpk/hottest-panchayats-kerala)

Have any suggestions or feedback, let me know, thanks!
On the subject of falling for scams over and over, I found this interview illuminating:

https://youtu.be/rTPUQHPMLks

Tl;Dw this man has been involved with ponzi-MLM after ponzi-MLM, and after coming on Coffeezilla to discuss one that's just blown up - it comes out that he's already in another one. But as he's fallen for scheme after scheme, he's also built a network of equally gullible people (he's a financial educator (!!!)) - so he actually ends up being pretty high up in the pyramid and making money.

Who knows what reflections he may have had after this interview and what changes he may have made to his life, but when Coffeezilla tries to explain this to him in the interview, it just sort of rolls off of him. (Iirc anyway, I haven't watched this interview in a year.)
Exactly, the hourly suicide watch, keeps you awake, makes you sleep deprived, creating a situation where you are going to descend into hell, get even more cranky, get drugged even more, throwing up because the drugs make you do this, and the military can slip actors into the mental health ward to further complete their psychological torture, and thats very important because most people dont realise how the military can do things like this. The public buy the lies because there is no transparency of their methods, even GDPR documents are fabricated in some cases, which gives more credibility to people like Virginia Giuffre!

Ironically what Sarah Connor goes through in Terminator 2, isnt that far from the truth, plus we shouldnt forget Religion is a legal form of insanity!

Where there is secrecy, state criminality can exist.
How credible is this news source?
These replies are lazy. HN becoming reddit so you guys can feel smart or something.
Thanks for posting this, I had never even realized I should be looking for this blog
It really seems to be true. I believe Doctorow now has a book called "Chokepoint Capitalism". Is it not true that so-called "tech" companies operate as chokepoints on the web. No matter what "services" they purport to provide, usually for "free", they will never get out of the way. They are always surveilling others for profit.
Even moderators need some time off.
Or being an insurance agent with no base salary.
M185 mouse is not working or frequently loses connection
They are better than Apple and Google. Worse than new twitter. If I was to try and work for something - would be twitter. Seems like after all the self righteous people are out - it can have this old school atmosphere.
Unsolved as in several products on the market that you can buy that are class 8 trucks? It's a solved problem. Batteries are heavy but a few tonnes of battery on a vehicle that is designed for 40 tonnes is not a problem.

Battery cost is a much bigger problem for trucks. A mwh of battery would deliver awesome range. But most commercial trucks come with something closer to a quarter of that. I think the Tesla semi actually comes close to a mwh. But it's an outlier. The reason for this is cost, not weight.
This is basically the route I'm taking. It's unfortunate, but the web looks godawful without.
yep when you have billions in the bank, firing good staff is tantamount to an admission either that you have literally no good ideas for how to grow the business or that you have a 100% short term view. In either case it ought to be a humliating admission for the leadership of a tech company to make to its investors.
Seems to me to be perfectly legal, if not morally right.
Did I miss something?
Perhaps not being morally right is something to have outrage about.
Depends on the work bubble you're in, I've definitely seen places where following asinine rules tempted getting shit done because of the power of gave the enforcer and the disconnect they had themselves from the results of success.

Mostly.gov but some private places that are big enough without true oversight as well
To be fair, any profession or field can be turned into a con. Just because deepak chopra advocates quantum healing doesn't mean the field itself is corrupt. MLM are by definition corrupt but startups aren't.
From what I see in media more supervision for children (compare to what was norm 25-50 years ago) is a trend across most economically developed countries. But the US is definitely the most extreme case.

I would not be surprised if there is an inverse correlation between birth rate and "child protect" laws - the less children a country have the better it tries to protect (to the point it harms everybody). But child hostile laws (and they abuse by police and social services) like in the US definitely not encourage young people to rise kids.
> It's that the very inclusiveness of Google gives an excuse to the rest of society to dump the worst tasks and the most burden on women, with the excuse that everyone's now equal.

I agree with literally everything else that you said except this one snippet. Women still aren't taking jobs that kill them and they're still not taking jobs that give them PTSD and cause them to commit suicide.

If you think the worst tasks and the most burden are being given to women, please remember that we're talking about office work exclusively and not hard, body/life-destroying labor.

Men just aren't complaining about it.

Also workplace discrimination at Google is equally as likely to go the other way. Every tech company that I've worked for has boldly and loudly claimed that they pay women more money for the same roles as their male peers to counteract the gender pay gap. Even the hedge fund I worked at 15 years ago made it very transparent that women were paid 4-8% more in the same roles.
Fine. It taught me a lot about enterprise Java, bought me a house and paid for my kids education.
A little akin to Brett Victor's interactive calculator ideas, maybe?
(Disclaimer: not intended as a complaint/disagreement with vinay_ys' comment, more of a rant about how I feel like how humanity as a whole could do a lot more to escape from zero-sum game scenarios)

> Markets are "efficient" at transferring money from "stupid" to "smart" people. Here "stupid" or "smart" is directly related to lower or higher in that information/power hierarchy.

Tangent: while this clearly applies in this context, I generally get really frustrated by this narrow way of modeling markets and by extension the economy, TBH, because it leaves out basically everything that's relevant to solving the really hard problems. Specifically, it ignores that real-life scenarios are not only strict hierarchies but complex networks that feature a ton of intransitive asymmetries (think rock-paper-scissors). Like, Buffet and Gates allegedly know about this[0] so it's not exactly obscure, and when you actually ask people on how they deal with trivial examples of it it becomes obvious that it's everywhere and people somehow try to work with it all the time[1], but whenever I hear people discuss markets it seems to be ignored. I dunno, I hope actual economists are less naive than the armchair kind (to which I certainly belong).

It kind of makes the misuse of the model feel like applying an algorithm that only works with DAGs to graphs full of cycles. It's not useless (just like how identifying DAGs is really important and useful), but when used to oversimplify complex scenarios it obscures the potential "good" cycles (virtuous ones) and "bad" ones (vicious cycles, deadlocks).

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-roll-dice-and-...

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/attempts-to-choose-the-best-life-may-...
The chance is >0, but beyond that it's just speculation--some of it very fancy, but speculation all the same.

For example, for awhile there was a theory that mass extinction events were correlated to the solar system's orbit as it passed through the galactic plane. That model, which is now largely rejected (per Wikipdia), predicted periodic relative increases and decreases in event rates across time spans down to several millions of years, but pinning down hard numbers was highly suspect even then--among other reasons, our solar system has only completed a couple dozen orbits since forming.

We just don't know enough to be able to say anything reliable except in broad, abstract terms with little meaning or substance. I'm squarely in the multi-planet advocacy camp, but IMNSHO if I or anyone else starts throwing around figures, conclusions, or even deductions, beware.
> no one ever tells the story of the hundreds or thousands of women in each of these organizations that are variously getting rich, making a living, or getting decent side money doing this.

Because in these scale-free networks, each incremental person who is successful harms incrementally more people. For the network to grow, it must produce an ever-expanding long tail of losers. Nothing to celebrate there.
Yeah this is true. Your comment is probably upsetting to people so it can be said in a more feelings-friendly way - "controversy" is mostly frowned upon here, but with more leeway for hard science and technology.

For example I have posted and debated a little about my counter-narrative opinions on "the covid response" here before and had them stay and even gather the occasional upvote, to their credit. But it is also extremely easy to get moderated when walking that line, and likely highly dependent on whether or not the users participating or reading the comments become upset by what they see. This is not just a case of covid in general being an off topic or controversial issue, because you could post until the cows come home about the Covid response if you were cheerleading and parroting the schizophrenic and ever-changing position of western governments and media.

I give them credit at least, I think what they have is better than a lot of places for such debate. You just have to know your place and be extremely careful and polite and factual when you deviate, and you have to be prepared at some point the conversation will be shut down if it is upsetting and angering other users.

I also like that deleted comments can be made visible, another really good transparent part about the moderation. I do agree there is a lot of junk, but it's nice to see what's verboten. I assume posts can be nuked entirely with no trace , I give the benefit of the doubt and hope that's used sparingly.
This would wipe out the GA market though. Small planes, small business jets, drones, etc. Most of these have ranges well below 1000 miles.

Short haul is actually well below 1000 miles as well on average. Here in Germany, essentially all domestic flights are closer to 300-400 miles. Basically most 1-2 hour flights would be in scope for electrification. That's most of the aviation market.
If an app is set up to output all variables, doesn't debugview or debugview++ effectively give you the same ability to step back in time?

Of course, it means adding code to the app to output everything to debugview where as the debugger can use the debug symbols and then log everything which is alot less work, but some languages dont come with a debugger.

Stepping back in time is useful though!
AI, ChatGPT, and Bing Oh My
information asymmetry is a kind of power, though. Your rebuke hinges on narrowing definition or common sense understanding of the term.
Its sad seeing the students coming into the field trying to find work right now. They don't understand why there's no responses or why the corps are not showing up to job events.

The industry has perpetuated the lie that stem means employment, so now we have a surplus of workers in an economic downturn, they're competing for the jobs because there is less capitol to create them.

When the market goes down the corps pull back. All the taxes we pay in infra and education are not returned by them.
Those are still AI, they are not ML.
All great stuff. Do you think MLMs are harmful?

(I'm just curious about your perspective because I couldn't work at a place like that, so I'm trying to understand. I'm not looking to pass judgement or get into an argument.)
The US government also can and does "force a company to keep operating" in the case where e.g. there's a dispute between two groups of shareholders and/or creditors, one of whom wants to shut it down and the other doesn't. Bankruptcy courts do that all the time; for the court of chancery to do it is rarer but it happens. The difference is that Germany recognises that the workers are also legitimate stakeholders with an interest in the business' continued operation.
Microsoft's failure in mobile was more of a business decision failure than a technology failure, to my understanding. Despite having products ready to launch, both Gates and Ballmer doubled down on the traditional Windows model. For example:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/the-inside-story-of-...

There are some other good articles I remember reading about Pioneer Studios that I am unable to find right now. I think Microsoft could have absolutely dominated the mobile space, but they really sat on their laurels for far too long. I think they had the talent and ability to handle the technology development. They just didn't want to because of Gates and Ballmer.