skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehhh incomplete wordmarks in a vacuum do look very same-y because they’re all coming to the same conclusion that single colour sans-serif type is very readable, flexible, as well as separately very useful as a “worst case scenario” brand mark for things like printing on very small tags. For fashion brands, it’s also bonus that it’s… in fashion currently.

All of these wordmarks are paired with other branding materials when not in a completely branded context. Things like other brand marks (Microsoft squares, YSL monogram), colours (Spotify green, eBay rainbow), or physical materials/products (Balenciaga will use their basic sans serif logo everywhere on their own site along with a lot of subtly branded clothing, but Nordstrom will feature products with Balenciaga plastered over them.)
This is my advise to people who ask me for advise when applying to PhD / graduate school for research. The advisor is probably the only other main factor besides finances and any other personal constraints. If you have a great advisor all around (not just the best researcher in their field, as in they also know how to mentor, teacher, network, and help you reach your goals), they will know how to navigate your different research interests and goals of your PhD and get you to where you want to go.
This is incredibly phishy, and I'm frankly disappointed that people would fall for such a thing. FastSpring, or any other payment provider, would not ask you to pay $150 for "admin costs" by following a link, otherwise your account gets terminated. They'd take it out of your revenue as a fee, if anything. It's a classic phishing ultimatum. Do not follow the link.
I can recommend his books, listed here: http://hintjens.com/books

Confessions of a Necromancer is his work biography, I was totally caught off-guard how relatable his stories turned out to be.
My take as well. Why not make windows free if it’s trivial to pirate already? Well, because you aren’t the target consumer.. not yet, anyway
The inaccuracies of this article aside, we’ve slowly been seeing a homogenization of car design as well. Surprisingly, the most innovative designs seem to be coming from the companies that used to bathe in vanilla forgettable design, Kia and Hyundai.

I know some of it is because of regulatory issues, but I don’t believe it’s that restrictive.
You can’t compare used products with brand new ones. You should compare with a used zimaboard market price.
first idea is, things like red light tickets and toll bills are sent to the registration address. so that could be a hassle.

you probably need to pay for tabs with a card, so it's identifiable, but there's obvious ways around that
This is getting silly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37810069
I work with NGO (property law) and couple of months ago we were awarded a grant for ads, around €2000/mo. Initially, I was pretty surprised with how generous this was, but later realized that it's both - a way for Google to brag how much they help "good causes", but most importantly - to raise the ad costs for others.

All in all - we made a few spammer operations less profitable, a couple wealthy assholes were angry about us helping people defend themselves and we brought quality traffic to the website and FB group. Thanks Skynet!
I recently got one of those passive boxes with an N5105 for opnsense. But I found it ran pretty hot. I was able to replace the thermal paste and shim the cooler a bit to get it closer to the CPU (there was originally a huge gap they bridged with a glob of paste), and it lowered the temps a bit, but it still hung out around 60-65c afterward. I think that could be OK, but it still just felt too warm too the touch. I ended up placing a USB 5V fan on the outside of the case and now it sits around 40-45c which I'm more happy with. But now I have a fan running 24/7 running on my passive device.

At the end of this ordeal, I bought another machine (MSI Cubi-N with an N200) for cheaper than the Topton Aliexpress job, which includes an internal fan. The fan is super quiet and the build quality is way better. And it comes from a reputable manufacturer which I trust more to not load any weird stuff into the bootloader. If I could do it again, I'd probably try to make my Opnsense router out of an MSI Cubi N with an N100 or N200, in both cases it would have been cheaper, more powerful, and use less electricity than the Aliexpress passive one. The only possible hiccup would be non-Intel nics that the Cubi comes with.

Just some perspective from someone who recently bought a couple of these devices.
> Something urgent must be the most important.

Not necessarily. Imagine a scenario where the team would like to submit their project to some kind of a competition, and the submission deadline is nearing. If they submit, they could win an award that could increase the project's visibility and potentially sales; but it's not guaranteed, and the project is already doing well enough on its own.

So, that task of submitting to the competition is definitely urgent, but at best nice-to-have.
1504 tall is low res in 2023. Even my iPad is 2048 pixels tall.

For reference, 4K UHD is 3840x2160. The MBP16 is 3456x2234.

> The power hungry is debatable but that's not a framework problem, is an Intel problem

Nope, it would be my problem if I bought one.
"VIN Decoder" is an auto industry term for software that takes a VIN and outputs human-readable information about the car. Historically they printed information encoded into the VIN, and over time database lookups were added. The name is now anachronistic.
> A new pid is always more than the previously assigned pid during an OS uptime[1]

This is not universal. Pids can be reused in unixes. The footnote seems to be missing when I went to see if it provided this context.

> Signals are plenty fast. Cloudflare benchmarked 404,844 1KB messages per second. That can suit most performance needs.

Uh, how is Cloudflare sending 1kB messages with signals? Neither this article nor the linked Cloudflare post seem to elaborate on this.
I’d instead say:

* talk to your PI beforehand obviously, so you can see if they are a jerk

* keep an eye on the failure mode. Check if you are making real progress after a year or two. If not, mastering out in a STEM field a totally legit path that will still leave you with a perfectly decent career potential. Some places will even let you do a thesis with your masters if you for some reason love writing giant LaTeX documents.
Ok but if you're halfway through The Land Before Time you can tell if you're gonna be interested in the rest without forcing yourself to slog through it.
There was some discussion and links on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582 recently - tldr, Insomnia now requires a cloud account and can’t run purely locally.

See also https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6606
I actually have one, installed Ubuntu and Ansible-Nas on it. Here is me lsblk output: its supposed to have 32GB MMC space, I only got 14GB. I wrote them an email about it, they asked for confirmation of my order only to then ignore me.

mmcblk0 ... 14.7G

At and while I am at it, I can not access the docker services from LAN even though I can ssh into it and I can locally via w3m access the services like hemdall hosted thought docker. Any idea what may fix this?
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I've been trying VR headsets since the first Oculus Dev Kit.

Apple has solved most of the problems plaguing other headsets. The only remaining problem, which is a huge problem, is weight and size. VR headset should be as effortless to wear as a pair of headphones. It's absolutely not a "software" problem, i.e. a lack of a killer app.

The problems they have already solved:

- Controllers and user interface (VR controllers and their associated interfaces are atrocious; you basically need to "shoot" at interface targets like shooting a gun, lol)

- Eye-tracking also makes "retina" resolutions possible with less compute, thanks to foveated rendering

- Low-latency/high quality AR

- Spatial tracking without external base stations

- Weight reduction with wired external battery

However, I'm afraid they'll need to scrap everything. Bigscreen Beyond is the form factor they should copy. It's just under 200g. Add extremely lightweight cameras for eye/spatial/hand-tracking. Remove everything else, like auto-adjusting IPD and the external display. Move compute to the battery case or stream it wirelessly from an external device. This would allow better thermals as well, and a fan wouldn't be needed in the device. High-resolution AR might have to go as well (although it might be possible to reconstruct from low-quality cameras).

I'm also waiting for Beyond to copy what Apple has done, and add wireless streaming. For PCVR in general, compute should be wirelessly streamed to/from a PC, and battery should be wired, like Vision Pro.
and many states circumvent that in the judiciary, we have child marriage to undermine other concepts like pedophilia, statutory rape here just like in developing nations

its actually quite rampant, possibly more in absolute numbers than the countries we think about, we just chose not to focus media or civil rights attention on it

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/explaining-child-marriage-laws-...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/its-time-end-child-marriage-united-...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/09/cassie-lev...

pick whichever source you respect more, I’m not that invested
> You'd be amazed...

I am amazed...by some of the comments.

This isn't a garage operation with a bunch of dudes hacking on a plywood workbench. This is a real engineering organization with a well-optimized process and enough vertical integration to deliver excellent products at scale. That's how you do what they do.

It is always interesting to watch people on HN, who obviously know very little about anything outside of hacking software, talk about making physical products. There's another thread on the first page about the realities of making a single plastic part. Read it. <sarcasm>It was obviously hacked together.</sarcasm>
> a slow, manual test procedure

End-users (i.e. documentation readers) are inevitably the last line of proofreading and docu-debugging. A nice idea I've seen is to put a "comment on this page" button tucked away in the corner of EVERY page.
FYI, there are various other front-ends for NMVTIS data here: https://vehiclehistory.bja.ojp.gov/nmvtis_vehiclehistory
On my keyboard layout it's one keypress. And since code is read about 100 times as much it's written, I don't particularly care about reaching 250 WPM while writing code. The difficulty of writing code is thinking about it, not actually physically writing it.
Indeed. IIRC firmware was available via some unofficial links, and downgrading worked for certain units but not for others—impossible to determine in the usual circumstances of acquiring a camera from a store.
I like EmailOctopus for its simplicity
(assuming that we're talking about the AWS serverless functions) Like everything else, it's situational.

Upsides of lambdas are ease of deployment (no need to worry about servers, that's kind of the whole point of serverless), virtually infinite horizontal scaling, and a very generous free tier.

Downsides are relatively slow cold starts, difficulty of exposing to the outside world (eg via HTTP route), and lack of state management.

Personally I like using Lambda as glue between different parts of the AWS ecosystem, or to handle events, dispatch notifications etc.

However I would definitely not use Lambda for anything remotely resembling a stateful web app, for instance. The slow cold starts and inherent statelessness are going to make that difficult. Also API Gateway is a huge pain to work with, or was last time I looked at it.
I learned an enormous amount about life, technology and myself from reading his blog posts.
Treatment works best when people are motivated to get clean. It doesn’t work when they are not. Moreover, the likelihood of good long-term outcomes decreases dramatically when addiction is comorbid with other serious mental illness.

Sadly, I don’t believe that most mentally ill, homeless addicts are going to get better. It’s a terrible situation, and I don’t know of a solution.

I don’t think anyone does.

I would also note that most rehab facilities for substance use disorders espouse an abstinence-based approach to treatment. That approach simply doesn’t work. The standard of care for opioid use disorder is medication assisted treatment, which is both evidence-based and far more effective than abstinence-based programs. The difference in outcomes is stark, particularly since dropout often results in death.

Bottom line, though, from my perspective: you can’t effectively treat people unless and until they are motivated to enter into and engage with a treatment program. “Junkies” of the type you describe rarely fit that bill. Drug courts are a good step in the right direction, but they need to take a more evidence-based approach to their operations.

I wish there was an easy solution to this problem, but there isn’t.
Timetagger: Open-source time-tracker with an interactive user experience
This 120%. Your day-to-day, your mental health, and your research success are largely a function of your lab's culture, and it's the PI who sets that culture. And the unfortunate reality is that PIs really don't get any formal training on culture-setting and people management, so there are some really successful folks out there who suck at running their groups.

The way you tilt the odds in your favor for getting a good PI-student match is to be embedded in the field. If you're an undergrad, getting involved in research is a great low-risk way to do this. People in research have reputations in their field, and people in the know will direct promising students away from labs with bad cultures.
The license plate isn't incorporated into the VIN in any form though, so this is demonstrably -- and literally -- not decoding.

"Identifier" or "Finder" maybe, but not in any way a decoder...

A "VIN decoder" would take a VIN and identify the World Manufacturer Identifier (country of origin / manufacturer), vehicle descriptor, model year, manufacturing plant, and production number -- but not the license plate.
They may, or they may choose higher volumes for the same price. There are always consequences.
I haven’t seen that key combo before, but I wonder if part of the thinking is that they are all next to each other. I’m not sure fine motor control is needed for fn+ctrl+option+cmd; the side of the hand would be enough.
We may be talking about different things, but GP's comment said "unsupported" whereas in kubernetes it's just not part of the control plane offered by kubernetes itself, in exactly the same way that cloud load balancer or even cloud auto-scaling isn't provided by kubernetes itself

Having read the sibling's comment, I think I better understand the situation since Nomad isn't a container orchestrator and thus there isn't one homogeneous place from which _to_ collect the logs, but in any sane k8s setup that's not true since both dockerd and containerd have mechanisms to influence that behavior and k8s is perfectly able, and supports, scheduling per-Node utility plumbing stuff like that without drama
That's just a scaling issue.
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Thank you so much for your response and valuable insights! The suggestions about providing as much context for issues, and help people with their PRs are very useful. I will take it across the whole open-sourcing.

The suggestions about sharing the project in Java-related communities are also excellent. Things like Hacktober are also fantastic opportunity to involve more contributors. Thanks for those suggestions.

Your words of encouragement and reminder to take care of myself are truly heartwarming. It means a lot to me that you acknowledge the effort I'm putting into fury for free. I will strive to find a balance that allows me to continue contributing in the long term.

Thank you once again for your kind words and support. It's people like you who make the open source community a wonderful place to be.
There's a pretty huge dichotomy between consoles and PC right now. I find those who bemoan that lack of games tend to refer to the former. It's become much better due to arcade/PSN titles, but consoles still tend to suffer from the 'we have all types of games - first person shooty/stabbers and third person shooty/stabbers' syndrome.

Go to Steam, search for any genre whatsoever that you're interested in, look at player reviews, and find out why some people think there are no games and why others think we're currently in an unprecedented golden age of gaming. Alternatively, which genres do you like?
Remote is fine. I think that's a consequence of how HR posts it.
Sure, right. Like heat pumps in Germany. Every time there's Forderung available, prices skyrocket.
Tbh second hand USFF or SFF PCs make excellent home servers. They have powerful x86_64 CPUs, are power efficient and can be had for sub $100
If all those points are true, why would anyone use the Western suppliers? Since they keep on business, someone must.

It's interesting that China usually has the reputation of producing low quality crap, but somehow they get the large scale manufacturing right.
Is there ad space to ad space business? Interesting.
I remember when their website was a simple catalog with lookup. It was peak usability. Then they modernised with modern bliat, and now its yet another website I have to avoid.
Alias at the top of your script. Sure /bin/bash doesn't read .bashrc when ran in batch mode, doesn't mean you can't patch your script.
If I had this, I would be a billionaire.

I don't need to come up with any new ideas. I would just hang out on Hackernews listening to ideas that I would then execute on.

We also have all the ideas we need to fix climate change, and world hunger, we just need execution.

I would gladly take the trade of executing on existing ideas, versus coming up with new ideas that we cannot execute on.
I think it's great to check media sensationalism, but I think there's a massive disconnect between the impacts of inflation on highly paid software engineers, and most Americans.

It's also a bit strange to see you view media as a completely separate entity from "decision-makers in companies". My experience has been that most decision makers in companies get most of their ideas entirely from the board and major investors. I recently left a publicly traded company, and pretty much every time our "leaders" met with the border and major investors they would come back singing a very different tune then they went in.

But these same major investors and board members also have relationships with people running major media companies (which are also just companies), in many cases they may even be the same people.

There's this trend I've seen on HN to just dismiss anything that seems wrong with the world, no matter the evidence, with "media sensationalism", as though we are living in fantastic times if it were for that pesky media distorting our views.
> Ha, I remember seeing exactly the same article when the font of choice was a bouncy, rounded sans-serif in the mid 2000s.

Every 7-10 years, there is a meta-trend in logo design. The last four or so:

* Drop shadow all the things (looked good on CRTs)
* Shiny/glassy look (looked good on LCDs and CRTs)
* Bouncy, rounded sans serif (looked good on LCD)
* Flat sans serif (Looks good on HPDI screens, especially on product placements)

I used to think there was a lot to it, but now I'm pretty sure it's just changes in tech + new features in design software. Drop shadows and glassy look were mostly design software features, and the bouncy rounded and flat sans serif are driven by changes in display tech.
One must be physically present and eligible to work in the US.
At first, I was all for banning Tiktok, but I'm come around - no social media giant has the users or general public in mind, whether their HQ is in the US or China. Big tech in the US is just upset they didn't come up with Tiktok first and in turn, the intelligence agencies are upset they can't snoop as much as they'd like. This turns off politicians because they're 1) tight with big tech 2) support the federal intelligence apparatus like ravenous dogs 3) its easy to join the anti China bandwagon ... if anything, popular internet connected services being ran from other countries actually acts as a nice buffer from domestic foolery.
> "There are real national security risks associated with TikTok, but it’s also an app 150 million Americans use," said Peter Harrell, who served on Biden’s National Security Council until last fall.

It would be nice if anyone explained what those risks are, and why they don't apply to Facebook et al. Banning it on government devices makes sense, but I don't understand why they're trying to ban individuals from using it.

Edit to clarify: I don't have strong feelings one way or the other on the ban. I'd like to understand it better because it feels weird to me to specifically single this one app out, without a clear explanation for why the bad behavior can't be prevented in a more general way.
In adtech a first price auction is also a single round.
Um. Not it doesn't mean that. It means there are things that can be unexpected. Fentanyl as a poison would *not* be a surprise.
In inflation-adjusted terms, the lowest income americans have done the best over the last few years, with their wages rising 9%:

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2022/

> Between 2019 and 2022, hourly wage growth was strongest at the bottom of the wage distribution. The 10th-percentile real hourly wage grew 9.0% over the three-year period. When we look across the wage distribution, we see wage growth declining for each successive wage group until we reach the high-wage group. Compared with the 9.0% wage growth at the bottom, growth was less than half as fast for lower-middle-wage workers (3.9%) and less than one-third as fast for middle-wage workers (2.4%) between 2019 and 2022. Upper-middle wages grew even more slowly at 1.8% over the three-year period, while the 90th-percentile wage grew 4.9%—faster than the middle wages, but not as fast as the 10th-percentile wage.

And this is from EPI, a left-leaning think tank.
As I read through the article I came to exactly the same conclusion.

I have an N95 mini PC that was $195 CAD, which came with 16GB RAM and a 500GB NVMe. It will also hold one SATA drive. All in a single box, although it is slightly larger and has a fan.

The NVMe slot on the Orange Pi 5 I use also keeps that mess down to a minimum. Power + network and that's a finished setup.

Edit: There are a TON of options in this space now. The value of 10 year old eBay gear is questionable at best.
> But if your assertion checks don't run in release mode, and due to some bug, those invariants don't hold, well, your program is already going to exhibit undefined behaviour. Why not let the compiler know about the undefined behaviour so it can optimize better?

Usually in release mode you want to log the core dump and then fix the bug.
They run laptop components so try more like 5-15W normally
did media make my milk sour?
Vehicles with less an a 1L engine get converted to float- might want to convert to cubic centimeters instead
Can you only bump it an order of magnitude per stage though? Seems inefficient.

Sounds like one of the defense contractor MBAs got ahold of the plan.
Yeah, almost the only time I'm writing C anymore is embedded, where I want to reason about type widths (while taking on as light a cognitive load as is possible). I have enough code that gets compiled to an 8, 16, or 32 bit target depending on context that having the bit width right on the tin is valuable. And it doesn't even cost me "hours and hours".
Well, I used to work there… so I at least have first-hand experience of the unorthodox methods and flexible working culture, one that is focussed on solutions rather than academic-type rigour. You’d be surprised how small the teams can be that design these products, ready for manufacture in Singapore.