skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, even now in 2022, the $4 or $5 IrDA LED+Phototransistor is in competition with $3.50 ESP32 chips / modules. So on the face of it, its kind of difficult to see why someone would go with IrDA over a full 802.11 Wifi stack that the ESP32 offers.

Then again: the IrDA phototransistor module linked above has only 0.075mA of current consumption while active. So IrDA read is extremely low power. The LED may take up 100+ mA of current when transmitting data, but receiving is extremely efficient it seems. Even then, IrDA standard has the LED active only 18.75% of the time for zero-bits, and 0% of the time for one-bits... so maybe only 10mA-ish power usage when transmitting.

In contrast, the ESP32 is ~80 mA receiving, and ~200mA transmitting. 1000x more power on receive, and probably 20x the power on transmit.

This is a surprisingly low-power I/O mechanism. I mean... its just an LED (albeit infrared) and a photodiode/phototransistor, but that's all you need for reliable wireless communications.

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Raw UART is usable in the simplest of projects, but a tiny bit of "smarts" would help a lot. The next layer, IrLAP implements Layer2 of OSI model (addresses, framing, CRC-checks).

Something like IrCOMM would take too long for a hobbyist to implement, but I can see why each portion of the IrDA stack exists. RS-232 has hardware flow control (ie: remote side can say "please stop sending data, I'm busy", which is a very important signal). Implementing flow-control is part of the Tinytp protocol (so IrCOMM requires Tinytp). Tinytp is ontop of the multiplexing protocol, and that sits on top of the IrLAP protocol, which sits atop the physical layer.

Hmm... I think ultimately, a well designed product _would_ have to implement IrLAP and Tinytp (or at least, equivalent functionality). Resending missing packets / replaying data upon errors, having enough checksums to check those errors, etc. etc. is just an important part of protocol design.

This is where working with ESP32 / 802.11 is nice, because all that crap has already been done for you... and you can just sit atop TCP streams. But each element below represents an important communication principle.

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Still though, UART / RS232 without any flow control is pretty much what you get at the IrPHY (lowest-level stack), with no software smarts at all. That's... fine? I've done plenty of hobby projects with just that.
Ah! Finally, I have a word for it!
This sounds like a you problem. Remote tech roles are falling off trees. Wherever you are that FAANG money can’t buy you a house, you definitely don’t need to be there. You are choosing to be in some incredibly unaffordable area. Lucky, if you are in a place like San Francisco, I expect with the exodus of on-site jobs and people, that the housing will be rapidly getting more affordable.
Maybe I missed it but I didn’t see much about home brewing a social network. App.net was an amazing structure for a social network. It went way beyond micro blogging although that’s what most people associated it with. When it went offline a lot of it was open sourced. A group of app.net fans now hang out at

https://pnut.io/about

It is a solid micro blogging service that has an API developers can use to build different apps for. I use one for posting and use a web app for a weekly meetup to request and watch videos together.

Using tools like this can be used for anyone to make a nice “Homebrew” social media platform.
You can't seriously be saying this is just a right-wing problem. Dan Andrews literally shutdown playgrounds to stop children playing (sorry "their parents congregating").

A brutal streak of authoritarianism runs deep on both sides of Australian politics. They only get angry about who gets to hold the whip.
For anyone interested, such topics are covered very widely under "cost disease" in the "rationalist sphere". slatestarcodex had quite a lot, then the subreddit dedicated to it discusses it nearly weekly with new proposals etc.
While I don’t feel like being a lifer is bad, I agree that OPs interpretation that this post might be a coping mechanism has some validity.

I say this as someone who has done some serious coping with previous jobs.
The problem is how to make Map use the deep comparison? I can do it manually yes. But if standard libraries are going to do referential check, then string is the only option left
Sure. Go for it. Can grab my contact a variety of ways, otherwise. hn@b.dobell.email
You must have been a very sincere and disciplined student. :)

In my case, when I was studying, I had all the time in the world. During that time, I did try to learn many things but I didn't go deep or weren't consistent. I mostly wasted times in goofing around. Looking back, the amount of time I wasted during college years has become a biggest pain of my current life when I don't have any skill or time to learn those skills.
Company logos designed by Paul Rand (IBM, UPS, ABC, NeXT, Enron, etc.)
There was some work (and POC) on getting pyodide to work as a thebe backend. You can check out this thread: https://github.com/executablebooks/thebe/issues/465 and other issues/PRs backlinked to it. I don't think anything like that has shipped yet, but definitely worth exploring (in the meantime the usual mybinder backend[1] for jupyter books works great, i.e. you don't have to host yourself).

[1] https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/interactive/launchbuttons....
It's not just technically legal under certain circumstances. It's explicitly legal. Only 7 states enforce adult marriage, with thousands of child marriages occurring each year. This certainly occurs more often than that viral thing you were too grossed out to google, and frankly attributing online unsubstantiated rumors about lgbtq people, when literal child marriages are happening in the thousands among straight people, is frankly the whataboutism here.
For real. My 24 year old cousin just bought his first home and he works a low paid blue collar job. The trick is to be in an affordable location.
Ah yeah, the current cards do not have batteries.
They mean they will never own a home in two of the wealthiest cities in the USA - San Francisco or New York. There’s a few other really expensive cities as well. It’s really easy for most properties to list for 1 MM min, even a 3 bed 1 bath house on a quarter acre lot.

The solution is easy, don’t live in an expensive city. Or inherit property from relatives who lived there 50 years ago. Or have a rich spouse.
And it’s still more adaptable/robust/intelligent than almost any system we’ve built so far.
I thought for sure it was a military term (recalling SAM missiles), until I saw it in the news just today.

GODDAMN.

Sidebar: MSFT is the king of acronym collisions.
As someone who went through western European modernist composition school (and who while entering it fully believed in the supremacy of modernist music) it was a painful process to notice that most of the post IIWW ("classical") music that was composed in Europe is so unconnected to - not just wider audience - but what I'd call a physical aspect of music: pulse and resonance. Most of it just makes the audience feel anxious and confused, if they even are able to pay attention.

It was then like waking up from a nightmare when I discovered the American school of minimalism. It restored my faith into art music and that writing for classical instruments still makes sense in the 21th century. So, it makes me wonder why the article doesn't mention what I think the greatest masterpiece of aleatoric music which was the starting point of minimalist music - Terry Riley's In C [1]. It comes from other continent than the original aleatoric music and it's aesthetic is "bit" different but it has aleatoric structure - and also listening it is joyful experience which I can't say about most of the examples linked in the article.

1: https://youtu.be/DpYBhX0UH04
How the bomb disposal experts first learned their craft is insane. https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Uxb-Heroic-Story-Disposal/dp/0... has the story.

Short version, the person working with the bomb would call out what they saw, then do what the partner said. The partner had a book and was out of the blast radius. They recorded it all, and if the bomb blew up would write down not to do THAT again!

Eventually they learned to somewhat reliably disarm the bombs by this type of trial and error. And then the other side would add better booby traps to stop them from succeeding.

Crazy.
Good news! They no longer make laptops
Ask HN: Do the HN RSS threads work?
I've been trying to use RSS feeds to replace the Twitter bots like https://mobile.twitter.com/newsyc300 (which stopped working a couple of months ago, and I was following via RSS anyway).

I've been using

https://hnrss.org/newest?points=250

and I've noticed that sporadically items with fewer than 250 points get picked up by my feed reeder, but then disappear from the feed.

Furthermore right now the feed has no new articles in over 48 hours, but there are definitely HN stories with more than 250 points since then.

Should this feed be working, and if not, is there an alternative?
Thank you, sir! The narrator (Maxwell Glick) and I did about an hour of live chat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGchbES0DhU

He did my second book, too.
The dictator part in me, if given the ability, would wave a magic wand and make these individuals 100% neurotypical for 24 hours. At the end of the time, I would ask them if they want to (1) wave the wand again and stay this way as long as they like (2) Go back to their <diagnosed disease> self or (3) commit suicide. I don't know what the answer would be, but I imagine the vast majority would pick (1), a few would pick (2) and a few would pick (3). From that point on, I would defer their suicide decisions to themselves.

Sadly that is not the reality we live in. The dictator, in this case is New York and various government entities. A government notorious for putting mentally ill in wards where people are "living in filth and dirt, their clothing in rags, in rooms less comfortable and cheerful than the cages in which we put animals in a zoo." [0] Without magic wands, the doctors are not always returning them to neurotypical condition, but rather often some other, perhaps clinically more palatable often drug-induced different mental state. There is often no neurotypical state the wand can be waved to, and often the decision for suicide overlaps between "ill" ad not ill persons particularly when they're subjected to indefinite stays in facilities under conditions of sexual abuse such as historically found in New York mental wards. Hell I might argue it may be cruel to stop someone from committing suicide to avoid being "helped" by New York.

That is, we are dealing with gritty, dirty reality where the mentally ill entity that is the state of New York, itself unqualified in its mental facilities, has a history of sexually and physically abusing people [0, but that's not all] to "protect" them from their own mental illness/suicide etc. Even if the consent argument fails on merits (I disagree), I argue the decision cannot and should not rest on the state in non-criminal concerns of imposing force on the ill (and notwithstanding the dystopic notion of government entities choosing who meets often poorly defined mental diseases).

With the state totally unqualified, and the individual on his own on the street often with family far removed, I defer to his perhaps ill consent. Notwithstanding, of course all help that can be offered should be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School
Those people are a very small minority of Americans, and I never said "all Americans", but rather "Americans who can't imagine life without cars", which is probably most of them.
Why do you live there then? So many great cities you can live in where you can actually afford a house.
I might be a lifer now. I'm in a big tech company, and in such a big company just understanding how the company works is by itself valuable.

It's not just the skills you learn with their platforms and products, it's the super secret tribal knowledge on how to get stuff done. It's easy to see how people make the decision that "this here is enough, let's ride it out".
It's rather impressive that they managed to go 12 years without a rate increase. But now that the fed's started everyone else must too.

I'm curious to see how cloud costs increase over the short to medium term, as many of the (e.g. snowflake) operated on the money burning growth model too. When companies infrastructure prices start going up significantly, they might start caring about wastage. I've seen many cases of hundreds of thousands saved just by turning off dev environments at night or simply changing which instance type a service is run on - and that's in small companies.
Kelseyfrog, I'm sorry, but I'm deeply struggling to understand how you can interpret thegrimmest as sealioning, and I think you need to re-evaluate your tone and the way you're framing his responses.

The parent reply that started this discussion says they believe it is wrong to suppress speech that is not a call to violence. You responded saying that this logic doesn't work if speech that is non-violent can still lead to violence, with the insinuation being that you are okay banning speech that falls into this category of "not violent, but leads to violence." Which is a perfectly valid point, and I believe a strong argument!

thegrimmest has then attempted to point out that it can be extremely difficult to pinpoint what speech falls into this category, and stated that these sorts of bans can be inappropriately used as tools of oppression by authoritarian governments. He asks how you feel this sort of ban could be properly implemented, given these potential problems. This is a very on-topic response; you appear to be proposing that the government expand its abilities to censor speech, and thegrimmest is asking how we could ensure the government doesn't abuse this power if it is implemented. Given the current state of the world, and the authoritarian trends rearing their head in dozens of countries, this criticism is valid, on-topic, and very far from sealioning.

Rather than try to address his concerns by proposing ways this sort of ban could be thoughtfully and morally implemented, you immediately chose to accuse him of sealioning, which is a form of trolling and a pretty serious accusation. He gamely attempted to appease you by rephrasing his wording, only for you to become snarky, smug, and accuse him of repeatedly pestering you with questions--when you had directly asked him multiple times to please rephrase his questions!

As someone who has experienced sealioning, and finds it quite infuriating, I am genuinely baffled how you can see this interaction as thegrimmest sealioning. I think you may need to take a moment to re-read the HackerNews code of conduct and remember that engaging in good faith is a must.

If you don't wish to engage with thegrimmest's criticisms, that is 100% okay. You can always say, "I support banning speech in this category, and I'm not interested in discussing the possible ways a government could abuse this power." But you cannot pretend that thegrimmest is somehow morally at fault for wishing to discuss government abuse, because presenting these sorts of on-topic and civil criticisms is exactly what these forums are for.

You're a very intelligent person, and I think you raise some great points. I almost always enjoy reading your comments and listening to your insights. But they get lost when you engage like this. I see from your previous comments that this isn't the first time this has happened; other commenters have complained of you being rigid and accusatory. It's probably worth taking a step back and examining why this is a recurring theme in your interactions on here.
Yes, I’m not trying to knock lifers in general, but there was a lot of fear and risk avoidance obvious in this specific post.
“But I can’t live in the midwest” -Them, probably
I found it pretty easy once I started looking at context. For example, “would this person be wearing these kind of earrings?”, etc. Seems like AI does faces incredibly well, but misses the broader picture.
Lumi lad, any idea what part of the supply chain Int Paper uses you for when not using SAP?
> How is this different from any other theft?

Nobody is being deprived of anything.
If I buy a pastry from the bakery and then use a machine I own to materialize perfect copies of the pastry, what did I steal?
Certainly not anything that needs to be replaced.
I'm not, after what they did to Foundation.
Well that's the thing, I don't generally see lesbians claiming they can have no lesbian friends, or gay people claiming they can have no gay friends, either. They seem to be able to be more emotionally mature about managing their attraction such that they don't need to cut themselves off from their attracted gender like some kind of addict.
Wireguard has now been in the kernel for OpenWRT releases since 20.xx (maybe earlier?) so you don't even need a Pi if you have a decently robust router that will take OpenWRT. Netgear R7800s are a sweet spot for this setup, dual core 1.9ghz ARM A15 and they even have an eSATA port.
Why make life harder for the poor person? To appease Apple’s profit line? I don’t understand the defense of huge corporation vs someone closer to you.

They could raise the price. They probably wouldn’t do. Those would be the wierdest price points. Apple isn’t gonna charge $10 more per iPhone and have weird first time prices. Like $810 instead of $799

My example isn’t even a stretch. It’s a legit issue that happens. I have multiple examples of it. I don’t want to assume but maybe you’re in some sort of bubble?
They almost always do have them if you look close. I got 28 of 30 (93%) and correctly identified all AI images. Anime-style ones are obvious even outside of the hands/eyes because SD can only produce one really specific type of shading that is a mishmash of many anime styles but doesn't match any of them, pictures of houses always have some part of them deformed, pictures of landscapes tend to be the hardest to identify but usually have some detail in them that doesn't make sense when you actually think about it (one drawing of a forest had a subtle but consistent horizontal line behind the trees), etc.
Touring is the biggest source of revenue for the musician. If they show up and you buy a ticket to their show, you've just given them maybe an order of magnitude more money than they would ever have gotten from you from record sales or streams alone. If you buy one of the $40 fruit of the loom shirts they are selling then that covers the costs for another dozen pirates.

Plus, what about used physical media? Do you think if I bought a used Beatles cd, I should be mailing a $20 bill to Paul McCartney? Am I stealing from Paul when I listen to that CD for free from the library? Or when I borrow my friends CD? Should the FBI come a knocking if my friend remixes it into a mixtape? Absolutely not. So it shouldn't be considered stealing when someone passes me a digital file that came from someone down the line buying the album.
>Data science effectively rebranded statistics but removed the requirement of deep statistical knowledge

An important thing people miss is that shallow statistical knowledge can cause subtle failures, but shallow software engineering knowledge can cause subtle failures too.

A junior frontend developer will write buggy code, notice that the UI is glitched, and fix the bug. A junior data analyst will write buggy code, fix any bugs which cause the results to be obviously way off, but bugs which cause subtler problems will go unfixed.

Writing correct code without the benefit of knowing when there is a bug is challenging enough for senior developers. I don't trust newbie devs to do it at all.

Context here is I used to work in email marketing and at one point I was reading some SQL that one of the data scientists wrote and observed that it was triple-counting our conversions from marketing email. Triple-counting conversions means the numbers were way off, but not so far off as to be utterly absurd. If I hadn't happened to do a careful read of that code, we would've just kept believing that our email marketing was 3x as effective as it actually was.

So, it's impossible to know how much of a problem this is. But there is every reason to believe it is a significant problem, and lots of code written by data scientists is plagued by bugs which undermine the analysis. (When's the last time you wrote a program which ran correctly on the first try?) Any serious data science effort would enforce stern practices around code review, assertions, TDD, etc. to make the analysis as correct as possible -- but my impression is it is much more common for data analysis to be low-quality throwaway code.
How exactly do you enforce such a law? If the victor refuses to follow the law, invade their country, set up a new puppet government, and put them on trial?
India will go cashless before it goes casteless.
I think marketing this more like a console and less like a game might be the way to go.
I know you probably have nothing besides the display in the card to keep it small, but that probably increases the number of Pogo pins you need if you need to run the entire display protocol over Pogo. If you had a demultiplexer in the card you could use only 3 Pogo pins.
Or just rent for a couple years and save up enough to buy a house elsewhere in cash.
One of the requirements of a cult is a charismatic leader. Who was that person for the Quakers and Shakers?
> I would love to see a guide to how to use this to transparently display where files are stored [...]

I'm not 100% sure I understand your request for a guide, but if you create your own repo based on the jupyterlite/demo template, you can then put your notebooks in `content` dir[1] and they will automatically become available. The CI build step that does this is here[2]. So in some sense you don't need a guide, it just works ;)

[1] https://github.com/jupyterlite/demo/tree/main/content

[2] https://github.com/jupyterlite/demo/blob/main/.github/workfl...
>> massive rise in education costs is a much more recent phenomenon.

Clinton did it by making most student loan debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/28362...
These treaties are largely useless because certain large powers refuse to sign them. Sure, it's nice if Switzerland or Norway signs such a treaty, but that doesn't exactly change anything.
> Nitter seems broken at the moment.

nitter.net is an official Nitter instance (and most overloaded) known to be rate limited. But report to devs to check if there is other case or bug.[0]

Meanwhile try another Nitter instance.[1,2]

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

[2] https://twiiit.com/ (redirecting proxy for Nitter instances)
I remember playing first the C64 Neuromancer game, which seemed great at the time and then moving on to the novel. I was always surprised they made a game but then never made a movie, especially when Johnny Mnemonic came out.