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So, what's the place for a fanless, low powered mini pc?

I use an Intel NUC with Linux (NUC8i5BEH) for daily work on Linux. Reasons I like it:

- Nearly all-Intel hardware, so very good Linux support.

- Easier to upgrade (3.5" SATA, M.2 NVMe, RAM) than many laptops. (Of course, there are laptops that are also easily upgradeable.)

- Since the firmware is also Intel, probably gets firmware updates for longer than many mainboards.

- Affordable. IIRC it was somewhere between 300-400 Euro a year ago, but same CPU/GPU as the 2000 Euro MacBook Pro 13" 2018 (which still makes it faster than the current crop of 8th generation MacBook Pro 13" 2020).

- Not very noisy under load. Probably noisy for a NUC, but definitely very quiet compared to the Dell workstation I had before.

Downsides:

- No space for another GPU. Though, it has TB3, so an eGPU would be an option.

- Not as extensible as a tower.

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Day to day activities can be proficiently carried out through laptops

For me there is no laptop outside a MacBook (or possibly Windows, but I have never really used Windows). I use a laptop when I am on the go (work, conferences). I do not want to fiddle with drivers, bad battery life, bad noise reduction, xrandr, or whatever when I am on the go. It just has to work.

However, powerful MacBooks are quite expensive and I do not want to carry around a 2500 Euro machine on a trip.

So, I am doing my daily work on a MacBook Air and on the Intel NUC (plus remote work GPU servers).
Funny branding :-)

(for the D-A-CH markets)
From the jepsen report:

"""

Curiously, MongoDB omitted any mention of these findings in their MongoDB and Jepsen page. Instead, that page discusses only passing results, makes no mention of read or write concern, buries the actual report in a footnote, and goes on to claim:

> MongoDB offers among the strongest data consistency, correctness, and safety guarantees of any database available today.

We encourage MongoDB to report Jepsen findings in context: while MongoDB did appear to offer per-document linearizability and causal consistency with the strongest settings, it also failed to offer those properties in most configurations.

"""

This is a really professional to tell someone to stop their nonsense.
Why is the CEO important - if I took a job at Motorola Solutions or Harris, why would their CEO be important for my daily role?

I currently work for a moderately sized company, and its unusual because the CEO actually knows who I am, and knows my name - but before this role that was not a thing I would expect.
I'm honestly confused. What point are you making?
Is open source sofwtare a bad business model?
First I support and like OSS,it has helped to innovate and advance research.
"Top Eight Existing Business Models"

Advertinsing: annoying for a lot of users,advertisers can influence in your sw development decisions

Auxiliary services : this is one is the most sustainable ways to work like red hat

Corporate development and distribution:a problem for FOSS in general since big corporations can influence a lot in stable FOSS projects,facebook, google and microsoft pay working hours to contribute to FOSS projects and to influnce to their commercial benefits : "Embrace-Extend-Extinguish", and if the community doesnt accept their changes they simply fork the project and call it a derived version.

Crowfunding : is good for completing a project but not long term stable

Proprietary relicensing: this is not FOSS for me ,and it is hypocrite

Membership and donations : excellent but for side income

SaaS :for me this is way to go if you offer FOSS sw,since you can add value to the product mixing it whit auxiliary services(some closed sw abuse it and offer unnecessary SaaS like office 360 and Adobe)

Update subscriptions:same as Proprietary relicensing

Software certification: double work

Selling user data : most successful business model from google, mozilla,every social media ll of them has to sell your data to earn revenue, macµsoft do it too even if your allready paying them , this model delimits your freedom as individual,even if the code is open source to discover the telemetry like in chrome,the projects are too ofuscated to disable it sucessfully (ungoogled-chrominiun is a good try).

Open source licenses give a lot of freedom to the users but also should be rework to give more rights to the sw creators,the ability to sell their work as sw pakcage allowign to share their work but keeping their comercial property for their work and all derivaties
I would like to know your opinion
What else would you get in that form factor today?

I have one and love it. One thing I wish it had is a more powerful CPU. Aside from that it's been awesome. It doesn't take up much space, is easy on the eyes and since I temporarily moved because COVID I just threw it in the backpack and was ready to go ;)
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My favorite mini PC is the Lenovo M92P "Tiny". Fairly easy to find a used one on eBay with 8GB RAM and a small SSD. No fan noise, decent performance, and no issues for me thus far.
I think it depends on how layered the company is, I have never interacted with someone above the VP/Director level, my job just doesnt call for it.
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The new Intel Ghost Canyon NUCs have PCIe slot and optionally come with 2070 RTX. But they are not cheap either.
My fave is New Century Schoolbook :)
Personally, I found the initial intro surprisingly easy to read and digest. I got double surprised when I noticed this is written in Haskell (IIUC) - for a thing created by a Haskell guy, this is incredibly readable and easy to digest. Typically you'd get swamped by monads, morphisms, equations and deep CompSci references. I can only say thank you for really putting an effort into making the readme approachable. I know how much work a reader-oriented readme takes. And another huge congrats for releasing and publishing on HN! This looks super interesting.
It does, actually. It’s supposed to describe a display where the individual pixels aren’t discernible at normal viewing distance
Ah, the science of UX.
Because MongoDB is web scale?
It is a bit dishonest to call it "css" when most of the heavy lifting (the math) is done by javascript.
From top of linked article:

>>> I have to admit raising an eyebrow when I saw that web page. In that report, MongoDB lost data and violated causal by default. Somehow that became "among the strongest data consistency, correctness, and safety guarantees of any database available today"! <<<

It's not wrong, just misleading. Seems overblown given that most practitioners know how to read this kind of marketing speak.
>1. Forbid delegation of enforcement to third parties. If you’re the copyright holder, you or your actual attorney may be the only ones to file a complaint. The copyright holder is solely responsible for such DMCA complaints.

if i remember correctly several years ago a copyright troll case was shot down by the judge on the grounds that [IANAL] the copyright law doesn't have the "right to sue" which the troll had supposedly bought from the copyright holder, and the ruling was something like that the troll doesn't have standing and the actual copyright holder should be the plaintiff.
Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defense industry? Doesn't Apple employ thousands of forns? Who's audited their datasystems and ensured that this stuff stays private?

Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.
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Yep, circa 1990, a SPARCstation or Sun-3 running SunOS 4 seemed the place to be, for having most software off the 'net build easily.

I also worked on almost all the other engineering workstation platforms, for porting purposes, but a SPARCstation was my preferred main workstation, overall.

(I was a kid who stumbled upon a dream job. So many expensive toys, so much I could learn, and this cool Internet thing...)
Doesn't this just boil down to externalities like colocation preventing the market from being efficient? I don't understand why people regard this as such a puzzle.
Did you mean whether browsers use it or not?

If that is the case, if not all, the majority of them already use it for ages now; else, please clarify what you mean.
> If you don't fully know the problem domain, use something with good library support.

I think this is completely fair. As my friend says, "I don't know what library I'll need for every project, but I know where will be one for Python."
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I build a FaaS based project and it runs locally using docker-compose. When running locally it just switches to a persistent mode. It's not nearly as large as yours I suspect, but I'm wondering what the problem you're running into is?
>"scsynth, a real-time audio server, forms the core of the platform. It features 400+ unit generators (“UGens”) for analysis, synthesis, and processing. Its granularity allows the fluid combination of many known and unknown audio techniques, moving between additive and subtractive synthesis, FM, granular synthesis, FFT, and physical modeling. You can write your own UGens in C++, and users have already contributed several hundred more to the sc3-plugins repository."

The whole project looks unbelievably beautiful and useful -- but especially what I outlined above!

Remember that everything in audio has analogous aspects in Physics, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, etc., etc.

In other words -- I believe this has broader applications than audio alone...
> The highest commercial internet speed anywhere in the world is currently in Singapore, where the average download speed is 197.3 megabits per second (mbps).

I’m very surprised by this. I would have assumed the leading country would have had something a lot closer to gigabit. ‘Good enough’ must be the user reaction. Years of terrible connections have left me chasing down every last bit, even though fibre is now installed.
I'm a bit biased since I worked as a Research Lead a while back, but I LOVE ITTTTTTT.

I'm gonna try and build a proper webpage like a personal blog using this.
You can program C effectively without pointer arithmetic. Storing copies of pointers for later is usually a bad idea.
Show HN: Stylus, a lightweight home infrastructure monitor based on CSS/SVG/HTML
If you're comfortable with Docker but want a great modular experience, I highly suggest UnRAID (unraid.net).

Obviously, you're likely good with your situation, but anyone else looking for a similar alternative to the proprietary NAS solutions should definitely look into UnRAID. I've got it hosting a web server with a ton of different services on a 2700X with 4 6TB and 1 4TB drive. Excellent software and really great community support.
Love the idea of a book based on spaces repetition, but wish they had a better way to get a sense of what you’re getting yourself into, since as far as I am able to tell there’s no:

- estimate of reading time
- level of knowledge
- way to link deeper content
Interesting analogy, but people are using Haskell, Prolog, etc. in production... if I were to stick to the comparison, I'd suggest that projects like Lighttable are more akin to the runway outfit.
I wonder if that figure includes WISPs and cellular, which would bring down the average considerably.
Tried it out. Loved it. I have one of those moderately expensive Samsung Chromebooks with its own pen, and the pressure sensitivity stuff works great. I can see myself building an art workflow around my Chromebook with Krita. Previously the only options on Chromebooks or Android were proprietary apps that had ads, including Autodesk Sketchbook which I used to love but they added ads, DeviantArt integration, and nerfed the UX.

So getting an open source, full-featured alternative is fantastic for me.
Ammon,

You are Tinder/Ashley Madison stating you want to tackle Facebook and become a social network overnight by making all profiles made in private public.

And your tone deaf response is to keep repeating "WE ARE NOT PUTTING DETAILS JUST YOUR NAME".

Well, what should people that have been married for 15 years do?

While this is so disappointing is that you could have easily executed this by making it opt it. Possibly with a new name.

Email everyone and say we are starting byte.com - LinkedIn for Engineers. A load of people would have signed up and you take it from there.

But you wanted to take the lazy way out and think about today only.

Be smart and retreat.
I used to keep a full-sized PC (in a case made to look like a retro stereo) in my entertainment center, but when the motherboard died a couple of years ago, I got on Amazon and bought a fanless mini PC with an SSD and Windows 10 Home preinstalled. About as big as a wifi router and does everything I need, which is to check email and play videos from sites the smart TV doesn't support. I think project computers are great and I have lots, but sometimes you just need a damned toaster.
The human penis still reigns supreme at 13500 terabits/sec
Agreed, escrowing is a great idea. In the case of the books I bought they were by very prominent people so I had high confidence they would be completed. For less-known authors tho, you make a great point.
I think it's remarkable this report has been out for a week now and no one at MongoDB has commented on it. At least, not that I have seen.
I bought from https://www.hystou.com/ not affiliated, bought after the recommendation from a friend). Cannot link to the specific model because they continually update them and it was few years ago, but you can check their Fanless PCs lineup.

I do not have a detailed write up of a setup but shortly: it the latest LTS, installed on built in SSD and attached USB disk is for bulk data - 4TB WD Passport. All important data are stored in encfs over Dropbox so - saves in a cloud continuously and encrypted. Once a month I swap one of the two secondary USB drives and a custom script does a combination of rdiff backups and encrypted zips and the disk is stored offsite. Hopefully one day I will move that script to borg.

Dockers run a bunch of random stuff like tt-rss and airsonic music server where I store a bunch of old and obscure stuff not available on Spotify.
In this case it's more of a writing style, I've always assumed, than outright bitterness. That gets clearer if you read Rachel's posts a lot.
How does that make sense? Can the "grad" do good enough job compared to a senior? I've seen my fair share of "senior" developers, who had insanely high salaries for some strange reason yet their output was mediocre at best. Laying off these people I can understand.

That said, management is notoriously bad at spotting these people. Chances are they lay off the only person who knows how some crucial piece of SW works...
At work we have a HP prodesk with a monitor mount, which is extremely neat. They are specced about the same as the Lenovo tiny computers (which I used to replace 3 raspberry pis), but are mostly aimed at companies.

The monitor mount is really neat. The computer is ok-ish reachable, but stays very much out of your way.
Cool, thanks I'll give that a try
Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.

1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball.

2. Sales is about people and it's about problem solving. It is not about solutions or technology or chemicals or lines of code or artichokes. It's about people and it's about solving problems.

3. People buy 4 things and 4 things only. Ever. Those 4 things are time, money, sex, and approval/peace of mind. If you try selling something other than those 4 things you will fail.

4. People buy aspirin always. They buy vitamins only occassionally and at unpredictable times. Sell aspirin.

5. I say in every talk I give: "all things being equal people buy from their friends. So make everything else equal then go make a lot of friends."

6. Being valuable and useful is all you ever need to do to sell things. Help people out. Send interesting posts. Write birthday cards. Record videos sharing your ideas for growing their business. Introduce people who would benefit from knowing each other then get out of the way, expecting nothing in return. Do this consistently and authentically and people will find ways to give you money. I promise.

7. No one cares about your quota, your payroll, your opex, your burn rate, etc. No one. They care about the problem you are solving for them.

There is more than 100 trillion dollars in the global economy just waiting for you to breathe it in. Good luck.
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Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23191439
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For every person whining about 60k JS there are 10 creating 10MB web app.
Might be worthwhile to look beyond just the big brands. I have an obscure Chinese Mini PC, which is about the size of a NUC (15 × 15 × 6 cm) but comes with a much more powerful i7-8850H CPU, and, since it has two M.2 connectors, I can use both an external GPU and an NVMe SSD for storage. The case is made of high-quality aluminum alloy and looks better than any of the products pictured in the article. Needless to say, I'm very satisified with it. Only had to patch the BIOS to make all the advanced settings show in the menu but as a bonus it came with the ME already disabled (manufacturing mode).
OCT is a recognized diagnostic modality in dermatology and worth discussing with your doctors. Here are some references:

https://www.mdedge.com/dermatology/article/146053/melanoma/o...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946785/

http://www.octnews.org/category/5/dermatology/

and here is a clinic that talks about using it to assess skin: https://dermnetnz.org/topics/optical-coherence-tomography/
It's especially hard with OCT as it's in the IR spectrum. You just have to go on your meters alone. It takes forever.
I appreciate your optimism in thinking that most (all?) people reaching for distributed systems actually know enough in the space to evaluate such claims.
That's the crazy thing about this. There's already obfuscation techniques against hash blacklists, so what is this even for? There's no earthly way apple security engineers didn't know that. So what is actually happening?

My guess is that it's strictly for banning app store apps that they pull from the app store, but would like also to cripple retroactively on installed machines. But that doesn't explain why it had to run against random shell scripts? This is all still confusing. We don't have all the info.
Our app is much better written in RN than the one i built in native code. RN doesn't have native bugs - they are worked around unlike pure native development when you have to live with them. Have you tried to customize UINavigationController to run on every version of iOS? Almost all projects i have seen eventually replaced it altogether with a custom implementation.

Typescript IS better programming language and much more powerful than, say swift. I can't see whats so special about swift comparing to typescript. I was coding for 5 years on swift and know what it is. Tests are much easier, typesystem is much more powerful and flexible. Compilation times are instant comparing to native.

Please, don't rant on JS ecosystem and "dependencies". To build native app you download 30GB xcode, clang and god know how many different libraries and runtimes. JS just not install them globally and 90% of deps are for development only.

Our app have 700kb of compiled JS. I have NEVER ever able to fit my kotlin/swift app to 700kb of compiled binary (excluding libraries).
There have been cheap tablets around for years, many of those work fine. I remember having a Kurta tablet in the late 90s that cost like $60 or so.

For me the gating factor was Linux support: along that axis, there was Wacom (which had it), and everybody else (which didn't). These days, even though the kernel and X drivers are called "wacom", they support all manner of budget tablets under a variety of brand names (though you will want to check to see if a particular model is supported, and how well).

LCD tablets are nice (albeit for a while it was cheaper to simply buy a tablet-based notebook computer than a Cintiq of equivalent size) -- but not having one doesn't prevent you from being proficient at digital art. Using a regular tablet is a great way to get started; the extra precision offered by an integrated LCD display extends your reach and productivity, it doesn't gate being able to produce at all.
1990, University of Toronto Zoology... one could make a make a good guess at the poster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer :)
This is the country with the most dramatically aged population though. I'm rather surprised.
is there amd NUC alternative with comparable performance to an i3/i5 ? Can't find anything
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I have the off the shelf 6-core Mac Mini. It is delightful for coding tasks. Last time I played WoW on it it was functional, but I had to limit the resolution to 1080p and disable anti-aliasing.

Compared to 2020 Macbook Air, a Mac Mini's CPU has up to 3x the base clock frequency or 3x the number of cores. So there should be a performance difference.
I've been looking for a way to automate monitoring of my home network by enhancing the network diagrams I've been keeping in diagrams.net w/CSS indicating the current status.

This project evolved from this experiment. The server runs a set of monitoring scripts at regular intervals and generates a CSS file that can be applied to your diagram (or optionally re-applied at periodic intervals).

It's very lightweight, written in Rust and barely uses any resources on my Pi 1B. It's also very configurable and I plan on adding a few more features to reduce the amount of configuration for traditional home networks.
> If you happen to disagree that Language is a valid place to fight for gender equality, you'd better serve your cause ignoring calls to equalize your language

It's not fair to say that people who disagree should stay silent.
In the wonderful book "The Supermen" about Seymour Cray and the early days of CDC, there's an anecdote about engineers building one of the early computers bringing their dogs to the office as early as the late 1940s, at one of the predecessors to CDC. That stuck in my mind as an example of how early the freewheeling culture which later became associated with SV actually got started, and how it was somehow closely related to the work or the kind of people who were inclined to get into it.

In my imagination, if one of them had had an allergy the others would have been fine with not bringing their dogs in. That's how teams work.
Most discrete GPUs and all ITX PSUs have fans. Lack of fans is one of the nice features of these minis.
I remember having immensely enjoyed the original "Call me maybe" analysis [https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb].
Sometimes it's just fun to see someone beaten.
Thunderbird blocks remote content from non-contact email. Is that not standard behavior? It prevents someone from knowing when you've opened their email.
Yeah, the article discusses this point a lot—the argument in favour being that's it's better to have _some_ imperfect access to out-of-print books than none at all. But yes, your point is ultimately a big part of why the project didn't happen
Yes, the very same guy. He is not a role model in any way but the guy knows how to sell and how to explain how to sell in plain words.

His book really helped me improve my sales skills. Other books like Jeffrey Gitomers red sales book are too wishy washy. Even classics written by Zig Ziglar pale in comparison to Belfort's book.