skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... I think I can visualize a 100 Mbit IR link in theory.

If we use Wi-fi like processing (256-QAM and the like), we'll only need 12.5 Mhz-class LEDs and photodiodes to communicate at 100 Mbit. (assuming 8-bits per 80 nanosecond or whatever). I'm pretty sure that cheap LEDs with 50 nanoseconds aka 20MHz speeds, as well as analog components with high-gains at 20MHz (I dunno, a 1GHz bandwidth-gain, giving x50 gain at 20MHz) are all possible.

I think the article's claims of 9.6 Gbit are so absurd however, that I'm having a great amount of difficulty seeing how it gets there.

I admit that I wasn't aware of the automation IR links that you posted. I'm impressed that IR has gotten that good today, but its not so good that its become unbelievable. The 9.6 Gbit headline on this article however is just absurd at face value. I really need to see a physical demo before I'll believe something like that.

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I know that IrDA is a 90s standard made for far slower LEDs and components. But its a good baseline for thinking about the issues that occur in the space of light-based communications.
It is clear what it means: a bunch of grifters are trying to pretend their magic beans are an actual investment like equities are. So they want a big and impressive sounding numbers, especially one that can be easily manipulated by wash trades and the like.
While Brexit may have had an impact, it's important to note that this refers to the Eurozone and not the EU, so it's not as simple as an explanation as the loss of the UK.

Slightly unrelated: anytime I see an article about dollars impending tumble as the world's reserve currency, I remember an article I read back in 2008 claiming the Euro was overtaking the dollar, because… rappers were flashing them in their videos. I'd be interested to see how much you could align different currencies in rap videos with currency strengths.
Does all growth go to the same rich people, or do more people become rich?
After my first car was stolen I went out to design and build an immobilizer system based on these PIC16F84 AlphaCard “smartcards”. Along the way I realized that what matters most is that it is obvious that there is something obscure like that and the real security does not matter. So I ended up with very consciously placed smartcard reader, complete with two blinking LEDs and 12wire rainbow flat IDC cable coming from that. In reality only thing that it did was that the card-present switch activated an relay that was wired in series with fuel pump relay coil. It didn't get stolen and I ended up shoving my drivers license into the slot, which for various onlookers made the “security system” look even more like some kind of high-end technology.

Edit: the original idea was that there would be some kind of reader unit that converts the ISO 7816-ish protocol to RS485 and the actual cryptographic challenge-response verification will happen in a unit buried deep inside the engine bay. Well, as long as it is one-off obscure hack, you don't really need any of that.
I just measured that stadium on a map, corner to corner it is 1.3km. That is 20 minutes even at conservative elderly person walking speed, and the stadium is in the middle so for everyone it will be less than 10 minutes walk.

If you are about to sit for few hours and shove hotdogs + sugary drinks down your throat the 10 minute walk will do you good.
The catalog from which I took the tiles mentions their manufacturing process in passing:

> The colours are at least one-quarter-inch thick, backed up to a full thickness of seven-eighth inch thick of pure granite sand and Portland cement, subjected to a high pressure in steel moulds, after which the tiles are immersed in water for a certain period, to render the material thoroughly sound, in the usual way adopted for a concrete of the highest quality. Being so constructed, the material — after being thoroughly matured — is quite impervious to moisture, is frostproof, and is eminently adapted for any class of flooring, — particularly where great durability is of utmost importance.

I wonder if I'll ever come across any in real life in some old building in Europe and if their hope of "great durability" extended to 120+ years :-)
Did they actually not control for U.K.? They just subtracted the 6th biggest economy and ran a sensational headline?
Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque rebuts fraud claims made by his former co-founder
In my experience, both as an applicant and a hiring manager, a warm introduction to a hiring manager or a referral works something like 10x better than an online application.
That's the easy route. The reason why those platforms are avoided is mostly because of the Wikimedia/wikipedia commitment to promote open source and privacy respecting platforms.

Arguably none of those are world-famous with a positive note for those attributes.
> I then added a faux xp bar and gave myself 10xp for dailies and 30 for weeklies

Omg I love this! Great work, that's fun and creative :)
The Earth is finite, but it is not a closed system. This is how solar, wind, tidal, and hydro are able to work: The Sun. Aside from that, it's that whole "matter neither created no destroyed but merely changing forms."

The difference with fossil fuels, overfishing the oceans, etc. is as was mentioned earlier, the huge reservoir of stored energy we've been consuming without replenishing, extending beyond fish populations' ability to reproduce and the system's ability to absorb excess CO2.

We can be sustainable on a finite planet as long as we find the balance, which means dramatically changing the way we interact with our world: dramatically less fossil fuels converted to greenhouse gases and sustainable fisheries that protect breeding grounds (for example).
I would add the asus m16 to that list
> Missing from here is context switches.

Exactly. From rsc's previous post[1]:

> On my laptop, a C thread switch takes a few microseconds. A channel operation and goroutine switch is an order of magnitude cheaper: a couple hundred nanoseconds. An optimized coroutine system can reduce the cost to tens of nanoseconds or less.

[1]: <https://research.swtch.com/pcdata>
They did. Perhaps GP was referring to the economic impact of the decoupling.
Again, it's not a success. And it's hilarious that a cryptowhatever advocate is trying to complain about tired arguments.
Ithaca, New York is another similar-sized town (population ~31K) that closed some blocks of its downtown "Main Street" (State Street) to make a very pleasant pedestrian business district. This happened in the 1970s.

The pedestrianized portion of State Street was part of a New York state highway -- highway traffic was re-routed to be on parallel one-way streets, separated by 2 blocks, that bracket the district.

The somewhat scattered wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Commons) has some of the backstory. (I lived there in the 90s and I think it's exaggerating the downturn in those years, but whatever.)
Open Source: Volunteering or Business? [video]
100 million developers worldwide contribute to open source. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and many other global companies. But what is the point? Why do people and companies invest in free software?
A little of column A, a little of column B. But the wealth distribution across percentiles continues getting worse.
As far as somewhere in the middle goes, I guess Englebart would think the violin worth learning, while Tessler would advocate for guitars (keytars?), but neither would go so far as to perform music with a vuvuzela?

(where does Ableton Live fit into the metaphor above?)
you don't even need to use the Mastodon software to be a participant in the wider Mastodon ecosystem. A WordPress site with a plugin can be part of the Fediverse.
Heh. The glass is missing some water vs the glass is mostly full of water.

(Not commentary on either of those media orgs btw, I don't follow nor have any opinion on either of those one way or the other.)
I'm not sure why author is advocating for single threaded patterns in a multithreaded environment. Not sure why he's trying to limit himself like this. The magic of goroutines is that you can use all of your cores easily not just one. Python and Lua has no choice.
So you don't like when cursor is moving on click?
Why your company’s AI IP fears might be overblown
Aspartame is a proven contributing factor of insulin resistance development. And you will get it even faster with aspartame than with sucrose. (Sucrose is a fancy but precise name of the usual sugar)

Even high fructose corn syrup is better than aspartame when it comes to long-term health consequences. So, consider to avoid aspartame like a plague. If you are into soda than you may find stevia-based formulations which have no side effects.
Doesn't this violate strict aliasing?
https://archive.md/u62YE
> While we're being pedantic: there's no katakana in the title on the original poster.

I think you're right. My Japanese is very rusty at this point, but I was taught that titles were always written in katakana, similar to how titles in English are always written in title case. But う is hiragana, for example.

I'm curious if anyone has an answer for this.
Plus points for running their own server. Now just missing to add Nostr to make sure those texts continue to be available one day in case the server goes down or gets censored in parts of the globe.
If you factor in 19 years of inflation, I wonder who is the winner.
> nobody wants more built near their land

Absolute nonsense.
This is low tech, available since the late 80's. It's a bit ludicrous to think it wasn't invented, and reinvented, many times within the last 43 years.
See here for an article that describes how it's done --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763935
What an overcomplicated load of baloney. If you become aware that you’re scared, stressed or overactive and distracted, do some 4-4-4-4 box method breathing until your mind calms down. The end. Just saved you having to remember this stupid acronym and this “ransom decision” nonsense. What’s more, it’s a proven technique that’s used by military personnel in life or death scenarios, as opposed to whoever this person is who’s claiming to have “10,000 learning cycles” of self discipline, whatever the fuck that means.
Senator Robert Kennedy on “Face the Nation” (1967) [video]
It doesn't matter how robust it is, any voice recognition less than 100% reliable and any more expensive than $0 would put your equipment at an operational disadvantage when put on the battlefield against an opposing military with vehicles that exhibit a 0% rate of authentication failures because they lack authentication.

There is no realistic scenario in which a military has lost physical control of the vehicle, and the situation is mitigated by locks on the vehicle. It is always already too late at that point.
> Modern PL features are more or less wrappers around comparatively complex C code. Object inheritance is actually one that isn't too difficult or complex to implement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&t=4275s

True, and if you implement it as a preprocessor, that's exactly how C++ started in 1979 (Stroustrup's "C with classes" Cfront pre-processor: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/history).
Since there is more space, you'd expect that the market would allocate more of it for parking where needs be and that you don't need the government dictating parking minimums.

Also, not all space is equal: even in the US, well-connected space with lots of amenities like the downtowns of cities is not infinite.
If someone doesn't control your phone number they can't reactivate.
Aren’t there similar problems with lead covered underground electrical cables throughout the US, particularly within large city networks?
> Parking is impactful but is ultimately shaped by human preferences that are revealed by the choices people make.

This is completely untrue. It is shaped by the profit-seeking behaviors of car manufacturers.

In general, when you think a phenomenon is due to "the choices people make" (especially in the US), it probably is not.
90%+ for "tech startups," although it's very hard to find data that sorts through all the startups and separates them into tech and non-tech startups. Good source is https://www.failory.com/blog/y-combinator-failures#:~:text=O....
Can you elaborate? You are want it to ping your HTTP server and let you know when no response?
as i read somewhere. people don't realize that the gap between US and france is as big as between france and greece.

I think this is finally being noticed everywhere, and expect that EU will change radically as an institution by the end of the decade
I'd love to see a citation for this. I've seen a lot of literature saying "it might" but nothing that is conclusive. As a type II diabetic, this matters a lot to me. If there were a link between aspartame and type ii (insulin resistant diabetes) the lawsuits would make asbestos look like small claims.
Steely Dan's Roger Nichols: Pioneer in Sample-Based Drum Replacement Technology
Really? For example as a software dev using Linux as a daily driver (so no gaming), would I not need a mouse at all with a Mac? (considering buying one)
Each of those platforms you mentioned is corporate-controlled. The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is probably more interested in engaging with open-source, non-centralized tech when possible.
Ok, as a nix noob. I find a given package, say `nixpkgs/3276b62e6639096014652132f4824ac2b4f2a2c4#nodejs`

Then what? How do I throw that in a configuration.nix or flake.nix file?
The title is wrong. The chart shows the eurozone, not the EU.
The modern German cognates are wider (against) and wieder (again, back), the common ancestor word being withra. The English Wiktionary is a great etymological dictionary.
Have you ever tried to write a BASIC program for any practial purpose? I have. It’s an excercise in mental fortitude, trying to remember whatever GOSUB 11600 meant, and what global variables were used as input and which ones were altered as an effect of calling the subroutine.

Named user-defined functions is essential for any program longer than a screenful of text.
Perhaps the author meant "clenching."
Try drinking a large amount of water, like a gallon, every day for a week. I did this and my palate changed completely.
Bobby Tables, his arms wide.
So why didn’t they take the billions of dollars he paid them and sue to have this “condition” upheld?
Is using this for your DNS a privacy issue?
I'd like to plug two podcasts by professional storyteller and contemporary bard Jeff Wright, who does a modern retelling of the two stories. [1][2]

As another commenter mentioned, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were passed down via oral tradition. If you want to be "pure", the best way of consuming the stories are to hear them.

Additionally, the stories were always meant to be told, retold, remixed, etc. It is very much in the spirit of the original stories for new bards to add their own spin to it. Don't be turned off by the fact that Jeff doesn't read verbatim a translation of the original texts. He adds a lot of extra context you wouldn't otherwise get from just reading the books (context that every other listener in Ancient Greece would have already had that we don't).

[1] Iliad / Trojan War: https://open.spotify.com/show/7w7RMunEMoAapudklkkVgE
[2] Odyssey: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vyJGStvyCNkel5Mqxb4OA
yes, there is no benefit on micrcontrollers where everything is usually compiled together as one image (ok, I imagine you COULD design a microcontroller firmware with dynamically loadable sections... but let's not think about that).

But for dynamic linking, this is how you avoid breaking ABI while maintaining forward flexibility.
The way real wages are tracked also undersell this trend. In theory since 2008 real wages have been increasing... in practice, housing and other costs like childcare have increased astronomically during that period negating any real gains.
I want it to be easy to cancel my own stuff, not easy for someone else to do it for me.
> We have 6.2 billion worth of extra war crime equipment available

We don't have $6.2B worth as it's military accounting value, not actual value. There are no buyers for this obsolete equipment apart from Ukraine, and no longer any use for the US military. The money put into the equipment is a sunken cost and the US Gov has to incur the ongoing cost of storage or decommissioning. This entire controversy is based on a seemingly willful misunderstanding of why the military gives obsolete equipment a monetary label and then an equivocation of that monetary value label with actual money.
It's entirely on the poor journalism. It's not WHO's job (nor is it possible) for them to ensure every global publication regurgitates their press releases accurately.

I mean, sure, you can distrust WHO if you want because of this, but seems kind of a silly reason.
Beyond the fact that they created an entire instance -

> I guess "joins" means created account..

I do think this statement would be accurate, you are "joining" if you create an account.

At least I don't see an argument for how creating an official account wouldn't count as "joining" - although it's admittedly boring if that's all they did.
It tells you cron is running. It tells you your junior dev did not accidentally reconfigure your cron to go once a week rather than once an hour. It tells you that the program that cron starts, which performs a small suite of diagnostics on your website, is able to do them regularly. It tells you that the network at your remote office can reach the outside world.
I took a philosophy class my freshman year of undergrad where we read his book "On Bullshit". Very memorable experience that made it clear (especially to a young person) that philosophy could be fun, enlightening, written in understandable language, and about "anything" without pretension. It's been years since I last read it and am still inclined to recommend his work based on the positive experience I had. Sad to hear this news.

https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on...
The same as crypto. The US political system is so deadlocked and ineffectual that it's often down to judges to guess and their guesses become law.
They also have a PeerTube instance.

https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/overview
With VM balloning, VMs are also able to claim and release memory to the hypervisor/host OS.
I try not to submit to conferences if I can avoid it. It's like you say, reviewers are looking for a reason to reject. I don't understand what makes the difference since it's usually the same people reviewing in both conferences and journals, but somehow journal reviewers do a much better job. Some journals have a fast turnaround even, and still the quality of reviewing is considerably better.

My second journal paper got rejected with encouragement to resubmit. Half the reason for that was because the reviewer had, I think, genuinely misunderstood the description of an experiment, so I re-wrote it in painstaking detail. I had a long section where I hammered out a proof of complexity spanning three pages, with four lemmas and a theorem, and the reviewer waded through all that like a hero, and caught errors and made recommendations for improvement. They made a new round of recommendations when I resubmitted. That paper took three rounds of revisions to publish (reject, resubmit, accept with minor revisions) but it got 80% better every time I had to revise it. I wish there was another couple of rounds! It was exhausting, and I bet much more so to the reviewer, but it was 100% worth it.

And yeah, I absolutely do my best to review like that myself. Even in conferences, which probably seems really weird to authors. But, hey, be the change you want to see.
As you say, they have a Twitter. Twitter could, at this point, vanish up its own arse at any moment. It was largely unusable for about three days recently. It remains pretty broken for non-logged-in people. Backup plans are hardly surprising.

Frankly, anyone who uses Twitter for anything more than entertainment should be looking at backup plans at this stage.
Coroutines are a control-flow mechanism. They're a single-threaded pattern in as much as for loops are a single-threaded pattern. Ability to write multithreaded programs does not exclude the need for good single-threaded tools.
I mean, that's the actual exception from our laws banning slavery in the US.
I seem to recall it had some parts of the transmission that hung down low and part of the..braking? system that was also very low. Everyone was very upset about it at the time.
Vinyl records also don’t have 0’s and zeroes, it does not make them better than Blu-ray. MLC NAND have more than just 1’s and 0’s, they have 0..7 or even 0..15.
Does anyone really want to process analog data?
And yet with all that money you can’t buy European quality of life in the USA
Firefox was even over 30% at one point. It's a fine browser, but that 30% was in the desktop era where the only competition was a stagnant IE.

Then mobile happened and Firefox failed to secure a seat at the mobile OS table. Nor does it have any big web property to push the browser. So neither on mobile nor on desktop does Mozilla have any leverage.

It's not an engineering problem, it's a leverage problem. But even in engineering Mozilla can't out-compete Google. There's no way out of this sink hole.

Such is the technical analysis, but I want to compliment it with the normie analysis: nobody gives a shit about browsers. They're free and all do the same thing. Hence people go with the default and stick to it for life.
Re: Celebrity Playlist – Make Something Wonderful
yes, though you can fix that with compiler flags (or, #pragma if you want strict aliasing elsewhere in your code)

alternatively, gcc supports VLAs in unions, but I don't think clang does, but that makes it extra annoying to do.

edit: apparently you can probably apply the may_alias attribute to the type? Or you could try using transparent_union. No idea if clang supports either...
Some BASICs did have named functions. Reportedly, The BBC Micro one was an early example, and later BASICs on, say, Atari ST, Amiga and later BASICs on MS-DOS all had them.
Still a kitchen sink move, though, isn't it?

Like, no careful thinking and good 80/20 solution this time. Just "huh, we'd need coroutines to do this `right` so let's just do that"

When they added generics, they really, really thought long and hard, and came up with a compromise that was brilliant and innovative in the balance it struck.

I would have hoped to see something like that here, like "we're adding this one feature to goroutines to have control in specific situations" feels like something that would be better than "we're going full Rust on this problem and just adding it."
I question the assertion that rebuilding a plane in flight is not something we do.

It is, in fact, humanity in a nutshell. From birth, to death, we're cycling in and out. Learning, growing to appreciate institutions, coming to terms with the fact those don't maintain or steer/replace themselves, and most importantly, we cannot just wholesale drop many of them without causing chaos.

This person, to assert that such a phrase is meaningless or inaccurate, I think needs to sit back and reevaluate the fundamentals of their existence, and maybe try not believing in the hot air they're blowing, and seeing if reality ultimately catches up with them.

I find doing do on occasion keeps one well grounded.
With a bit of leather/cloth wrapped around the blade, they're perfectly capable of cutting through softish metals and hard plastics. The tension is mostly optional, since the teeth usually only point towards the pull, resulting in the blade providing usable tension.

Source: Not a car thief, but have misplaced my hacksaw, for small tasks, far too many times.
Next time you're out, count how may pickup trucks you see hauling things vs ones that clearly have never hauled anything bigger than a set of golf clubs, which would actually be put in the back seat of quad cab because you don't want them rolling around.