skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing which obviously cuts down the code space of 7 segments is the fact that there's no levitating glyphs. They all touch the floor somehow. Another thing that cuts down on the code space is the fact that there's no disconnected glyphs. All the segments touch at least one other segment. I suppose you could write 11 on a single 7 seg display, but you wouldn't think of 11 as a single character. The last restriction that cuts things down a tiny bit is that for vertical line characters (i,l,1), it doesn't matter if you use the segments on the left or the right. They are still the same character.

Applying these constraints, There are a handful of could-be letters left over. Some are already in use like the upside down A (used in mathematics), Capital Gamma, entailment symbol (used in logic). Others, like upside down and/or backwards F, upside down 4, and -| aren't used anywhere AFAIK.
LoRA will always have spotty coverage. There might be a lot of spots all over the place, but they're still just little spots. For short messages, you need much lower frequency. Then you can cover entire cities from one or two sites.

The lowest-frequency LoRA transmitters are still UHF, and they can't be used from towers or hilltops due to HAAT restrictions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_above_average_terrain

You really want something VHF or below. Like a chunk of the former analog TV bands. A really really tiny sliver is enough.

LoRA is a horrifically bandwidth-inefficient protocol. It craps on a gigantic swath of frequencies in order to send a few bits of data. They call it a "chirp", not a "crap". The only reason anybody gets away with such a wasteful modulation scheme is that it happens in the garbage band.
Anyone who needs to buy goods and services, or settle debt, in the local currency.
He has said in interviews after winning his two gold medal that he's going to try to stop, but since he tried that two times before, there's a 20% chance he'll be back.

He also said he doesn't know what he's going to do the next few years, but that there are a few ultra runs he still wants to do.

Here is a source. It's in Dutch though and doesn't mention the 20% https://www.nu.nl/olympische-spelen/6183560/van-der-poel-kie...
Reminds me of https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
This is not new to social media, but it has made it pervasive.
Interesting. They are planning to use an OS called "EMBOX" [1] which has the main focus of "[making it possible to use] Linux software everywhere including MCUs".

I wonder how that is going to work the restricted memory and no virtual memory (making e.g. `fork` and dynamic memory allocation unsuitable).

[1] https://www.embox.rocks/
> It connects wirelessly to a display, which is paired to a keyboard and mouse.

When you add the display, battery, keyboard and mouse, it's really cheap to add brains and storage and build a full laptop that can share data with your phone.

This is why most lapdocks fail - they aren't that much less expensive than a cheap laptop. This is also why, at some point, nobody was making dedicated terminals for large computers - they were as expensive to build as PCs.
I completely disagree with the author. I have been using Roam for last two years and I could not be happier. Roam deeply changed my life. It became my system for almost everything:

- Personal therapist helping me find patterns in my thought

- A personal journal helping me determine my life value and goals

- A productivity coach through an OKR system with daily, weekly and monthly checkups

- A system for learning and focusing on what to learn

- A system for planning and what to read (a reading list ++)

- Zettlekasten system for developing ideas in my research and startups

- A place for random notes about everything (a short meeting from last year, a startup I stumbled upon two years ago, a recipe someone told me about)

Roam is not the only system I use. I find inadequate for organized thoughts. If you need an engineering wiki for your project, I would not recommend Roam, notion would be the better option. Similarly if you need project planning, go with Clickup. But, if you need a second brain, somewhere chaotic yet very powerful, Roam is your best option.
Amazon is sunsetting? Soon as I read that my wtf is this guy selling alarm went off... took a while to find...

"...Web 3.0, or the next generation of the internet, started growing late last year"

.. crypto! Of course.
You can have a good phone with a good virtualized OS you you can have a not-that-good phone with a good OS.
This case is one I've been watching for a while.

It's astonishing. No money ever went missing. It merely _seemed_ to
have, and that was the entire foundation for what happened.

Fujitsu should take no blame at all. Their software is crap. But so is
everyone's. That's software. We know and accept that in the industry.

> The inquiry will look at whether the Post Office knew about faults
in the IT system

It did, because hundreds of users reported them. It chose to attack
those users and bullheadedly believe that the system could not be
wrong. Once their position was entrenched it became about "How dare
mere mortals challenge technology?"

It led to a staggering spectacle of bullying (through relentless legal
threats, stone-walling, harassment, and wrongful prosecution) that
caused many of the victims to suffer severe health effects or
contemplate suicide.

> our first priority is that full, fair and final compensation is
provided

Rubbish. This is about more than compensation. There is no _final_ to
this. It needs dragging out into the sunlight.

Sure, people lost their livelihoods, marriages, homes and years of
their lives over this. Deep pockets might cover it. But if mere
compensation is allowed to cover-up this episode a travesty will have
occurred.

The issue is about fundamental changes we need to make around our
relation to technology that allows grave errors made by weak-minded
people to hide behind it. As we put ever more trust in digital
forensics, telemetry, algorithmic policing, face-recognition,
automated fraud detection and so on, more innocent people will have
their lives ruined because we are falling into abject snivelling
surrender before technology, far beyond anything Ellul, Mumford, Freud
or Weber foresaw.

This speaks to a fundamental error in _how_ technology is being used.

> lessons are learned so that such events can never happen again

Sadly, they will happen again and again and again, I think.
Tax it too much and you'll create underground market. There's probably billions of dollars worth of amateur cigarette contraband around Europe. Fighting that wastes tons of money. But fight isn't about recouping some $, but about some sort of fairness?
Sounds like a lot of customization.

You've basically invented the FPGA, and they're mostly good for hardware accelerating specific things. A CPU is going to be better if you don't have time to convert your problem into a hardware description language.

If you do have that time and expertise you can probably get good results on a regular GPU.

CPUs are just way easier to program for than FPGAs. Maybe with better tooling.
OTOH, if you spend 750 on each and one breaks, it's only 750 to replace it.
The term Nazi has just become defacto word used to censor people cause of the emotional reaction people have been brainwashed into exhibiting when they hear it.
I think like lots of things... If you expect to do better than other people, be prepared to know more or do more then them. Many people dedicate their lives to learning the stock market and what to do. It's unlikely someone can beat them with doing the bare minimum research.

Not saying there isn't shady stuff going on too. There definitely is, but even if there wasn't it is a skill based game.
Well, then ... why did you forget, when you (believe you've) actually cared?
That’s good! It means people who aren’t actually part of your busy life will get pruned out, and you’ll be left with more time to deal with people who actually matter.
> Why recompile to android, when you can virtualize?

Performance?
The next wave of web frameworks is going to be all about keeping stuff at home. No more lambdas, no more serverless, no more CDNs, no more vendoring. It's all a cycle.

Monolithic apps. No frameworks, no package managers. Everything is provided by the house.

Monolithic apps. Monolithic frameworks. Libraries via package managers. Almost everything is provided by the house, but now we rely on a bunch of dependencies.

Microservices. Different frameworks for each part (frontend, backend, databases). We still keep stuff on our domain. No serverless yet, but we start to keep stuff out of the house. Dependencies on CDNs.

Microservices. Serverless, lambdas. We start to put everything on the hands of others.

Here. We go back to point 1.
Unless you have made it into "management" or "entrepreneurship", what you state is true.

I am going through the same phase, I am not up to date with the current trends not am I in management. However, I have come to realise that as much as things change a lot of things remain the same.

You may not be able to code better or faster but with maturity your ability to get a bird's eye view of things improve, your ability to grasp or judge the +/- of complex/new software/systems increases.

Unfortunately, it is not very easy to come across places that appreciate these, until disaster strikes.

And let that not affect your growth, keep learning new things, stop running after shiny new frameworks and focus on fundamentals. That is where your strength might lie, eventually you might find yourself in a good position.
Software flaw lead to incorrect numbers being displayed on a monitor. It was something very different that lead to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.
Then couldn't you just move somewhere else? I live in the Netherlands, near amsterdam. It's one of the most developed places on Earth (more so than most of the US) and my yearly salary is only 100k USD, which puts me in the top 1% on my country.
You're not the only one bro. I am pretty sure its not just us two either. Dont feel too hard on your self, but use that energy towards staying in contact. Write a list of people to talk to, etc.
It is meaningless - I could offer free copies of high resolution photographs of the Mona Lisa, no one could make even a single cent selling them anywhere.

NFTs only have value within the community of users who trade and make NFTs.

If you want to "pirate" NFTs, you have to upload copymints, and the community is quite swift at policing any copies
This is fun. So much to unpack.

Honestly if I'm still an employee by the time I'm 35/40, then I messed up somewhere.

That's sort of admirable as an ambition for a founder, but I don't think you've thought about your attitude to age from the perspective of your employees. Have they messed up working for you if they're over 35? Does your attitude mean that any one over 30 should consider working for your company as a temporary gig that they won't stay in for more than a few years? That could have a seriously adverse impact on your ability to hire senior devs.

Your memory certainly isn't going to improve with time

The basis of my job isn't "remembering stuff". Google augments that ability very well. My skills are applying my experience and combining it with knowledge. I have forgotten loads, but the important stuff tends to stick.

You've most likely got less stamina too.

This is definitely true, but I also have 25 years experience of making sure I do things in the laziest way possible. I automate loads of things. I document everything. I don't really need stamina, and as a bonus (for me and the company) everything ticks along nicely when I'm asleep. Assuming the outcomes are the same, would you rather run a company where the youthful devs need to run around like their hair is on fire, or one where the sleepy old dev does very little work? For the sake of argument, imagine how well things carry on if the devs leave.

Statistically speaking you're less likely to change your mind on any subject

In my experience younger devs tend to think they're right more often than older devs, and find it harder to see the other side of an argument. I think it's likely not to be directly age-related though. It's more a matter of seeing how often you're wrong, and that takes time.

Now, get off my lawn.
I see how it might look like that, but you are missing a critical point.

Everyone is different. What comes naturally to some doesn't come naturally to others.

For a lot of people (me included) keeping in touch with others doesn't come "naturally". We miss contact, and yet we sheldom establish it. There are many reasons for this: poor time management skills, low self-esteem, simple lack of practice, etc. In any case, it takes effort to break out of it.

Try to think about something that others do, and that you would like to do, but is difficult for you. Exercise, learn a new language, go to bed earlier, eat more healthily... whatever. This might give you a perspective of what it is like to have this "friction".

I see what this person is doing as a way to remove the friction and create a new habit. I have no doubt that when "they gets the thing rolling" with someone it will gradually easy to keep engaged without the machine "dictating" anything.
Applies to UK with main points:- Cost: 1.4 trillion pounds, Most impact on: the poor much more than the rich. Cars: sale of all petrol & diesel cars to stop 2030, insurance is 45% more expensive for electric than comparable IC car.
Heating: new conventional gas boilers banned from 2025, heat pumps only work in fully-insulated homes. 25 million homes will not reach insulation standards by 2050. Recycling: regulations will impose further high costs on the consumer. Repair shops: will become commonplace again. Holidays: 70% of flights are by 15% of the population. 57% never fly. People will be fiscally encouraged to stay at home.
You’re aware that an enormous proportion of people’s constitution dao refunds were eaten up by gas fees, presumably.
Similarly I often think of my friends plus wider circle, but I‘m terribly unorganized except I make a conscious effort. That means writing things down, set reminders and so on. Love and organization of social life are orthogonal.
Totally agree. The Internet is huge, incredibly huge, and it takes a lot of resources to get people to find you and get interested. No matter what area you are in.
Hmm, I'm seeing the same right now. A picture of an ice cream. Time to dig through my tabs maybe.
I am getting a "this page is down" twitter error on the link (from the UK), which is also unusual.
I don't want to live in a world full of objects that can't be misused. Maybe you do.
>VR was tried again a few years ago, it got quite successful

Has it been successful? It looks like a dead end to me.
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Silicon Valley had an episode about a similar idea and it didn't end well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzvFiR_Dts
I've played a game called Prosperous universe and witnessed the end of capitalism. Think about it. A game where the enjoyment is derived from economic activity and it's growth. At some point you reach the end of the tech tree. There are no new frontiers to discover. There is no need for further productivity. The game is prone to making itself redundant. If there was no base limit and bots were accepted the entire game could be played by a single player thereby eliminating the need for all other players.

When you consider this inherent contradiction you really start wondering what the point of capitalism is. You reach the end and stop playing. Why haven't we stopped "playing" the same way I stopped playing?

There is an existential crisis at the core of capitalism. Productivity can only exist for the sake of leisure.
You think you need more than 170k per year to own a yacht, travel the world and dress fancy? I'm guessing you haven't actually done any of these things before, then.

Outside of silicon valley, 170k per year is a huge amount of money. Especially if you're going to travel outside of North America and Europe.
an STM32 might be a little on the shy side for realtime stereo reconstruction. the OpenCV algorithms i use take quite a bit of time even to process low resolutions images (don't have the number in mind). there's quite a bit of image processing involved to correct for lens distortion and the block matching algos are pretty heavy.

even if camera are multiplex, they might be triggered at the same time (which is essential for stereo).
> How do you manage to lose touch with friends? Did you not miss them?

Well yes you can not miss your friend for long period of time because they are far away and a large enough social circle keeps you so busy locally that your mind do not get the opportunity to feel it.

Anyone who has been living in different areas/countries lost track to some real friends. There is always a moment when you feel you might want to reach out to them again but sometimes it is too late.
These are tufts that you mean?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuft_(aeronautics)
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My laptop has more than 20x the memory of the PinePhone's maximum, and can run 3x external 4K displays, so the PinePhone would not even remotely approximate laptop-replacement level for me.

The hardware in mobile phones needs to improve substantially for the scenario I described to be practical; there's no hardware that supports it today, but the software in TFA is a step in the direction.
This should be SaaSified and sold for $5/15/25 per month, with AI-generated trivial empty messages.

Also, you could sign-up for the antipode service, for only $50 a month, which will reply on your behalf to such AI-generated postcards.

Soon, we'll just have chatbots congratulating each other on birthdays and such.

Isn't life wonderful? /s
transaction fees are currently very small percentage of miner's income, and probably will be so for another ~3 halvings. By that time, protocols would evolve so that you won't need a mainnet transaction at all to create a second layer wallet.

>> The article convincingly argues that it's not irreversible nor uncensorable

Not convincingly at all. Not a single tx has been reverted on BTC network in 13 years (well, except of couple of early bugs that caused network split), maybe you are confusing with some other network. No one is able to prevent a tx from going out, as we just witnessed - FBI wasn't able to revert a $3.6B theft transaction without getting hold of private keys.

>> Are you saying that the 14 cents a month would cover the transaction fees?

I paid a tx fee once, two years ago, to fund my Satoshi Wallet, and haven't paid another satoshi in tx fees for about a hundred of purchases since then. So I don't see why everyone can't do that. As to the initial funding of the wallet for everyone, I don't see why it can't be done off chain as well in the future.
This was done as a joke.

Go was released.

Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real.

Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot.

Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you search.
Derek Sivers seems kinda cool. I mean, I used to read him back in the times of CDBaby and he seemed like a nice person. Of course, I can only say he seems so because I haven't really met him. I don't know him.

Later, I would receive some of his emails and while they always did feel honest and thoughtful, I always understood we'd never even talked to each other. Sometimes I could think it was "just a commercial email" to present this book or whatever. Other times he would just sort of talk, about things in his life, "without anything to sell". But whatever the case it was clear I was "on a list".

----

I keep very few contacts. Probably too few. There's only a handful of people I talk to regularly. There is a woman I love quite dearly and we talk on the phone maybe once a week, sometimes less, sometimes more. Some other very close friends, less than I can count on my fingers, and again we talk occasionally, randomly. Maybe every few days, maybe once a month or less.

I have been postponing visiting them because of other personal circumstances, but we know that's just how things are at the moment and that we'll see each other "soon". Those friendships will not disappear even if, for whatever reason, we don't get a chance to talk or see each other for a couple of months or longer.

There's also a larger number of acquaintances. Friends, but less close. Ex-coworkers or ex-colleagues. There's this group that likes, say, comic books and I'm giving away my collection. So I might just throw an email in their direction because I remember they liked that. Someone may be interested. We'll meet and talk about whatever past and present we may have in common -or not-, maybe have a drink or a tea or maybe not, I'll give them the comics and then maybe I won't see them again for years. Maybe forever, because life is that way and you never know.

----

I've always felt Derek's approach to keeping in contact... interesting. I mean, if that works for him, then great. But I think that the system is a lot more for his benefit than for the benefit of the relationships themselves. And again, great for him. I mean it. But I don't feel the need for such a system for myself and I feel like not many people do.
I have lost several friends, even good friends by failing to contact each other. If you have many friends who move around the world a lot it's very easy to happen. I miss them very much.

I don't miss them as assets as you say. I believe that if I suddenly needed their help and asked for it, they would help me - and it goes the other way as well ofc. I'm not concerned by that.

But how do you start talking to someone after years and years of radio silence? Even more importantly, how do you make sure you won't slip out of touch again, other than using a system?
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This comment is far more cynical than his life.

My grandmother knew hundreds of people. Her little black book was massive. She had a system as well for reaching out.

Your emotions are good for regulating your relationships with 5-10 people, that's about it.
to be blunt because the librem is an awful phone. The battery life is miserable, the UI is terrible, and the performance isn't great either. It feels five years behind at the price that's higher than the pixel 6.

A mid-range Xiaomi phone is better than the Librem 5 and costs four times less.
> Some important cultural glue has been thrown out with the bath water as traditional religion has declined.

Experiencing christianity (EU) has led me to discover some of the most vile, exploitative predatory behavior towards the frail and weak I could imagine. I wish for the total disappearance of religion in every country, it's social cancer, not a glue. If it keeps people together, it's with fear.
> Old-school me would not have expected that to happen. Post-Snowden? It's a definite possibility.

And... Is that a "favorable" (hope that's the right word, non-native here) thing?
I had a small Ruby (Sinatra) website running on a Linux vm on a spare Android phone (Sony Xperia X Compact). Turns out the CPU is quite capable. It actually compiles Nginx faster than a low end Google Cloud vm.

It sounds nothing, but looking at Nginx logs scrolling on a tiny phone screen is so unbelievable.
> If he plans to abandon skating, this is good marketing for entering the speaking tour cycles

That seems totally out of character.